Signals Securities of the US Trade He may retain the subsidies of the Puces Act, indicates the report

Commerce secretary, Howard Lunick, would have said that he could retain the prices of the Act chips promised by the Biden administration if the beneficiaries do not considerably widen the size of their semiconductor projects in the United States.

According to BloombergCiting eight people familiar with the issue, Lutnick wants companies that have won the prices to follow the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM), which has promised an additional $ 100 billion to its initial investment plan of $ 65 billion in American factories.

Bloomberg said Lutnick seeks to generate billions of dollars in flea investments by companies without increasing prices.

The Ministry of Commerce did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

President Donald Trump was a critic of the chips and science act, legislation in 2022 supported by the president of the time, Joe Biden, who assigned more than $ 50 billion to stimulate the production of semiconductors at the national level.

Trump signed a decree to create an office named the American investment accelerator in the Ministry of Commerce on Monday to facilitate and accelerate investments over $ 1 billion in the United States. The program is responsible for the program of the Puces Act, intended, he said, to “negotiate much better offers from the flea law than the previous administration,” said the White House in its order information sheet.