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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A series of amendments for a $190 billion U.S. Senate bill aimed at countering China\u2019s technology challenge are in limbo after business groups protested proposals intended to ensure that none of the money finds its way to China or other U.S. rivals.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: A 12-inch wafer is seen at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) in Hsinchu June 15, 2010. REUTERS\/Pichi Chuang <\/figcaption>

New regulations or reviews of investments or deals in China could disrupt U.S. businesses\u2019 future operations in that country, which include semiconductors and medical equipment. The bilateral trade deficit has run more than $100 billion a year since 2002.<\/p>\n

Senators from both sides of the aisle want \u201cguardrails,\u201d such as mandatory security disclosures and interagency reviews to stop U.S. businesses from compromising national security by outsourcing critical technologies to China.<\/p>\n

The Senate bill authorizes $120 billion for high-tech research and another $54 billion to subsidize U.S. semiconductor production. For chip factories, it makes no distinction between foreign recipients and U.S.-based firms in determining who gets funds for U.S. facilities.<\/p>\n

A key goal of the funding is to bring the world\u2019s most advanced chip plants to the United States, and only Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Korea\u2019s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd have the technology to do that.<\/p>\n

Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio has proposed an amendment requiring U.S. national security officials to screen recipients and require disclosure of funding or support from foreign entities, including the Chinese government or Chinese state-owned enterprises.<\/p>\n

TSMC and Samsung both have operations in China.<\/p>\n

Another amendment from Democratic Senator Bob Casey and Republican Senator John Cornyn would require an interagency review of any U.S. investments in China or a shortlist of adversarial countries. That would mark a huge change for U.S. law, which for decades has had provisions for screening inbound investments, but not for outbound.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a company wants to offshore semiconductors to China, we need to know about it,\u201d Casey said from the Senate floor on Wednesday. \u201cYet, business interests, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S.-China Business Council, are organizing against this commonsense proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Casey took to task Republicans opposing the measure, saying they talk tough on China, but they \u201ccut and run\u201d when it comes to taking on big business.<\/p>\n

John Murphy, the U.S. Chamber\u2019s senior vice president for international policy, said existing laws, such as the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA), could address the China investment issue, and that the proposal needed more discussion in the Senate before being added to such a sweeping package.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress and the administration should focus on using the legal tools on which the paint is barely dry,\u201d he said, referring to ECRA.<\/p>\n

One Senate aide cited fierce opposition to the Casey-Cornyn amendment from businesses and some Republicans, including Senator Mike Crapo, the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, adding: \u201cWe\u2019re not confident that it\u2019s going to come to a vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crapo declined to comment.<\/p>\n

FUNDAMENTAL FLAW?<\/h2>\n

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has sought to get the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act passed this week, but Republicans insist the bill is not ready.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an increasing consensus that the lack of guardrails is the fundamental flaw of the bill,\u201d a Republican House aide said of the Senate package.<\/p>\n

The House of Representatives is planning its own version of a China bill and could add other provisions on chips funding as well.<\/p>\n

Rubio\u2019s office said it was still working on getting his amendment incorporated. When he proposed his amendment for counterintelligence screening last week, he noted the much needed investments would \u201cmean nothing if they are stolen by foreign adversaries, including the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Any restrictions on subsidies to foreign companies would likely benefit Intel Corp, the long-time U.S. national champion in chip-making that has promised to redouble its efforts in the most advanced technologies and spend more than $20 billion on new U.S. plants.<\/p>\n

Intel last year moved to sell off its only chip factory in China to SK Hynix.<\/p>\n

Derek Scissors, of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, who studies China and security issues, said companies should be forced to make a choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you receive federal government money, you cannot expand your business in China from that point. The end. And if you don\u2019t like that, don\u2019t take the federal money,\u201d Scissors said.<\/p>\n

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