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U.S. renews temporary license allowing companies to sell to Huawei, adds 45 to blacklist
The Commerce Department Tuesday renewed a temporary license that
allows U.S. companies to sell their products to Huawei but blacklisted
exporting products to 45 companies associated with the Chinese technology firm.Commerce
Secretary Wilbur Ross justified the 90-day renewal in a release,
saying that "more time is
necessary to prevent any disruption."In May, amid escalating trade war tensions with China and a
lengthy dispute regarding Huawei
over espionage allegations, President Trump declared a
national emergency that banned U.S. telecommunications
companies from using equipment from foreign firms that could threaten national
security.The
Commerce Department followed up immediately by placing Huawei and
70 affiliates on the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Entity List to
“prevent American technology from being used by foreign owned entities in ways
that potentially undermine U.S. national security or foreign policy interests,”
Ross said in a statement at the time. Finding
“that foreign adversaries are increasingly creating and exploiting
vulnerabilities in information and communications technology and services,
which store and communicate vast amounts of sensitive information, facilitate
the digital economy, and support critical infrastructure and vital emergency
services, in order to commit malicious cyber-enabled actions, including
economic and industrial espionage against the United States and its
people,” Trump’s order prohibited “any acquisition, importation, transfer,
installation, dealing in, or use of any information and communications
technology or service…where the transaction involves any property in which any
foreign country or a national thereof has any interest” and has been determined
to be detrimental to the U.S.The president told reporters Sunday he didn’t “want
to do business at all because it is a national security threat.”Ross noted the department is “constantly working…to ensure that any exports to
Huawei and its affiliates do not violate the terms of the Entity Listing or
Temporary General License.”Calling the U.S. government’s Monday actions a violation of “the
basic principles of free market competition,” Huawei said in a statement
today’s “decision, made at this
particular time, is politically motivated and has nothing to do with national
security."The company
also said that “attempts to suppress Huawei's business won't help the United
States achieve technological leadership” and called for the U.S. “to put an end
to this unjust treatment and remove Huawei from the Entity List.”
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