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title: "Affiliates rule: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/affiliates-rule
description: "Affiliates rule: An American export rule that extends the Entity List's license requirement to any company the listed firms own half of or more."
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# Affiliates rule

What does “Affiliates rule” mean?

Affiliates ruleAn American export rule that extends the Entity List’s license requirement to any company the listed firms own half of or more. It is also called the fifty-percent rule. *Chapter 7.*

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

## Where the book uses it

- [Chapter 7 — The Double Blockade](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-7)Two governments deciding one trade: Washington’s export rules and Beijing’s instructions at the border, and what each did to the chip business it meant to shape.

## Related terms

- [Fifty-percent rule](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/fifty-percent-rule)
- [Entity List](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/entity-list)
- [Cut-out](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/cut-out)
- [Double blockade](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/double-blockade)
- [EUV](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/euv)
- [Export controls](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/export-controls)
- [H20](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/h20)
- [H200](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/h200)
- [SemiAnalysis](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/semianalysis)
- [SpaceXSI](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/spacexsi)

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- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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