The Biden administration this year revoked eight licenses that allowed some companies to ship goods to Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei in an attempt to pressure the resurgent company, documents first reported by Reuters showed.
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The Biden administration this year revoked eight licenses that allowed some companies to ship goods to Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei in an attempt to pressure the resurgent company, documents first reported by Reuters showed.
As first reported by Reuters, the Commerce Department, which oversees U.S. export policy, said in May it had revoked “certain” licenses but did not specify the names or number of affected suppliers. license Qualcomm and Intel That included canceled projects, Reuters reported at the time.
“Since the beginning of 2024, (the Commerce Department) has revoked eight additional licenses involving Huawei,” the agency said in a document responding to a query from Republican Rep. Michael McCaul.
According to the document, Huawei’s licenses include “sports equipment and office furniture, as well as low-tech components for mass consumer market products, such as touchpads and touch screen sensors for tablet computers,” which can be purchased in China from both Chinese and foreign Sources are widely available. Ministry said.
Huawei and Qualcomm did not respond to requests for comment. Intel declined to comment. A spokesman for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by McCall, said the committee received the data on Tuesday and is reviewing it.
The details shed new light on steps the Biden administration is taking to stop Huawei, which has begun to rebound despite Washington’s efforts to undermine Huawei on national security grounds. Huawei denies there are security risks.
Meanwhile, Republican China hardliners in Congress have pressured the company to crack down. . SMIC This is despite U.S. export restrictions on both companies.
The phone helped Huawei’s smartphone sales soar 64% year-on-year in the first six weeks of 2024, according to research firm Counterpoint. Its smart car parts business has also contributed to Huawei’s resurgence, with the company achieving its fastest revenue growth in four years in 2023.
Huawei was placed on the U.S. trade restrictions list in 2019 due to concerns that it could spy on Americans. Being added to the list means the company’s suppliers must seek special, hard-to-obtain licenses before shipping.
But Huawei suppliers have gained billions of dollars worth of licenses to sell Huawei products and technology thanks to a policy introduced by the Trump administration that allows a wider range of products to flow to the company than would be available to physically listed companies.
The summary also noted that from 2018 to 2023, the agency approved $335 billion worth of licenses, while applications seeking to sell products to Chinese parties on the Entity List totaled $880 billion. Of those approvals, applications worth $222 billion were received in 2021, Biden’s first year in office, compared with $560 billion in applications that year, the agency added.
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