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title: "Export controls: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/export-controls
description: "Export controls: A state's rules on which chips, tools and even models may be sold abroad, and to whom."
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# Export controls

What does “Export controls” mean?

Export controlsA state’s rules on which chips, tools and even models may be sold abroad, and to whom. Washington’s are published, or disclosed by the company they bind. Beijing’s rare-earth controls of October 2025 are published notices, suspended until 10 November 2026; its proposal of October 2026 would write a large model’s weights into a published list; and its stop on the H200 at its own border reached the record only through sources. *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.

## Where the record uses it

- Person [Wang, Dan](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people#wang-dan)

## Also discussed in

- Dated test [Chapter 7, the harder to reverse, Washington’s side](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2027-18)

## Related terms

- [Weights](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/weights)
- [H200](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/h200)
- [Affiliates rule](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/affiliates-rule)
- [Cut-out](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/cut-out)
- [Double blockade](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/double-blockade)
- [Entity List](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/entity-list)
- [EUV](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/euv)
- [H20](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/h20)
- [SemiAnalysis](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/semianalysis)
- [SpaceXSI](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/spacexsi)

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*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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