The Ministry of Commerce has approved the export of Nvidia H200 chipsets to China

Nvidia’s advanced AI chips could return to China after all.

The Commerce Department will allow Nvidia to ship H200 chips to China, As originally reported SemaphoreFor authorized customers in the country. The United States will take a Cut 25% of these salesCNBC reported.

The H200 chips are much more advanced than the H20 chips that Nvidia developed specifically for the Chinese market, but the company will only be able to ship H200 chips that are about 18 months old, Semafor said.

“We applaud President Trump’s decision to allow the U.S. chip industry to compete to support high-wage jobs and manufacturing in America. Offering the H200 to authorized commercial customers, vetted by the Commerce Department, strikes a thoughtful balance that is great for America,” an Nvidia spokesperson told TechCrunch.

The news report comes a week after US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced the decision to export these H200 chips to China. It was in the hands of President Donald Trump.

The decision to send these chips to China conflicts with Congress’ concerns about national security.

Pete Ricketts, a Republican senator from Nebraska, and Chris Coons, a Democratic senator from Delaware, introduced a bill on December 4 that would Ban the export of advanced artificial intelligence chips To China for more than two years.

The Safe and Feasible Chips (SAFE) Act would require the Commerce Department to deny any export license for advanced AI chips to China for 30 months. It is unclear when lawmakers will vote on the proposed bill, especially now that the Trump administration has given the green light to the sale of H200 chips.

While Congress has long been clear about sending advanced AI chips to China — on both sides of the aisle — President Trump has wavered on whether or not to allow exports.

The Trump administration has hit chip companies like Nvidia Licensing requirements To send their chips to China in April before officially He repealed the deployment rule approved by the Biden administration It would have regulated AI chip exports in May. Over the summer, the US government indicated that companies would be able to start sending chips to China as long as they received government approval 15% discount on all revenueswhere the chips became A Bargaining tool In trade talks with China.

However, by that point, the market for US-developed chips in China was strained.

In September, China’s Internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, Local companies banned from purchasing Nvidia chips, leaving companies in the country dependent on less advanced domestic chips from Alibaba and Huawei.

Trump said Monday that Chinese President Xi Jinping “responded positively” to the latest H200 news in Truth is a social function.

This story was updated on December 8 when the proposed decision was confirmed.