Sheikh Tahnoon to lobby US to ease UAE microchip controls
Published on March 18, 2025
The UAE’s national security adviser, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, is to travel to Washington to try to convince the Trump administration to ease export controls on advanced semiconductors.
Sheikh Tahnoon, the brother of the UAE’s president, will press US cabinet officials for easier access for the UAE to American technology and discuss further Emirati investment in the US, Bloomberg reported.
The meeting, which is said to have come at the request of Trump himself, is likely to include the US secretaries of commerce, the treasury and national security. It is not yet clear if President Trump will be involved.