A Groundbreaking and Controversial Arrangement Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD), two of the world’s leading semiconductor companies, have agreed to an extraordinary deal with the Trump administration,

Even in an administration that has repeatedly pushed the legal limits of using economic statecraft to reshape the global business landscape, a new deal with two tech giants is raising alarm bells among trade experts.

The Trump administration will receive 15% of the sales as part of a deal to approve exports of Nvidia’s H20 AI chip to China, according to people familiar with the matter. That could amount to billions of dollars given demand for the H20 chips and is the latest example of the White House employing novel tactics to raise revenue.