Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on November 13, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Dutch officials will travel to China next week to negotiate over chipmaker Nexperia amid geopolitical tensions affecting the semiconductor industry.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -A Dutch government delegation will travel to China "early next week" to seek a solution in the spat over chipmaker Nexperia, Dutch Economy Minister Vincent Karremans said on Thursday.
"A senior official delegation from my ministry will travel to Beijing to continue our efforts to find a mutually agreeable solution," Karremans said in a statement.
Karremans said he welcomed moves by China to loosen rules around the export of Nexperia's chips but he is still monitoring the situation to "ascertain if and when trade from Nexperia's facilities in China is fully resumed."
A geopolitical and corporate fight broke out in late September over Chinese-owned, Netherlands-based Nexperia, which makes billions of chips for cars and other electronics.
After the Netherlands seized control of the Dutch company due to concerns about technology transfers to its Chinese parent Wingtech, China imposed export controls on the company's China-made products, threatening automotive industry supply lines.
As of now, the Netherlands' government is wielding a veto over strategic decisions at the company. Beijing has urged Dutch allies to put pressure on The Hague to make concessions.
Separately, a Dutch court suspended the company's former CEO and Wingtech founder over alleged mismanagement.
(Reporting by Bart Meijer and Toby Sterling; Editing by Jan Harvey and Aidan Lewis)
Nexperia is a Dutch semiconductor company that specializes in producing chips for various applications, including automotive and consumer electronics.
A veto is the power of an individual or group to reject a decision or proposal made by a legislative body or other authority.
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