Lawmakers Urge Against Export Controls Working Group With China

Republican lawmakers are warning Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo not to let China weigh in on US export controls during her upcoming trip to Beijing, where she may announce a working group with her Chinese counterparts focused on planned American regulation of investment in high-tech Chinese companies.

The working group, a potential partnership between her department and China’s commerce ministry that was first reported by Bloomberg News, would discuss US restrictions on American firms’ high-tech exports to China and Chinese companies that have been added to a Commerce Department export blacklist.

Those restrictions include a recent order from President Joe Biden ...