Top Japanese Chip Gear Firm to Honor US Blacklist of Chinese Firms

Top Japanese Chip Gear Firm to Honor US Blacklist of Chinese Firms
A researcher plants a semiconductor chip on an interface board, at the Tsinghua Unigroup research center in Beijing on Feb. 29, 2016. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
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TOKYO—Japan’s Tokyo Electron, the world’s No.3 supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, will not supply to Chinese clients blacklisted by Washington, a senior company executive told Reuters.

The decision shows how Washington’s effort to bar sales of technology to Chinese firms, including Huawei Technologies, is ensnaring non-American firms that are not obliged to follow U.S. law.