On 22 April 2026, the House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced by a substantial bipartisan margin a bill that gives the Netherlands 150 days to match American export controls on semiconductor equipme…
The equipment chokehold: ASML, the MATCH Act, and the end of the allied exemption
A Dutch company in Veldhoven has become the most important instrument of American economic statecraft — and the free market that built it has nothing to do with what happens next.
