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| America tightens restrictions on Huawei's access to technology |
The Trump administration is expected to announce on Monday that it will tighten restrictions on Huawei to improve access to commercial chips, officials familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The US Commerce Department measures are expected to lead to an extension of the restrictions announced in May. Telecom giants in China have been banned from obtaining semiconductors without special licenses, including chips made by foreign companies designed or manufactured with US software or technology.
The source said: Since the arrival of Huawei in May 2019, the US government will place 38 Huawei subsidiaries in 21 countries / regions on the US government's economic blacklist for a total of 152 subsidiaries.
"Huawei and its subsidiaries have worked with outside parties to use American technology in ways that undermine countries' national security and foreign policy interests," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement to Reuters.
As relations between China and the United States deteriorated, becoming the worst country in decades, Washington used the pretext of reporting spying allegations to the Chinese government to urge governments around the world to put pressure on Huawei. Huawei has denied spying for China.
"It is expected that the new measures will take effect immediately and will prevent Huawei from circumventing US export controls," the source said.
An official from the Ministry of Commerce told Reuters that due to the procedures we are reviewing, Huawei may want to obtain them from third-party design firms.
Another trade official said the restrictions are aimed at ensuring that components made abroad can prevent Huawei from using chips that fall under restrictions published in May, and are subject to the same US review.
The source said: There is a separate new rule that states that any company listed on the economic blacklist must be licensed if they act as buyers, intermediary senders, end senders, or end users of companies (such as Huawei). Degree.
The other 38 Huawei companies that have been blacklisted include Huawei's cloud divisions in Beijing, Hong Kong, Paris, Berlin and Mexico.
The trading section added separate headings for the four Huawei grouping pages in the Entity List so that no one would accidentally move items to these pages.
The competent authority also confirmed that it will not extend the temporary general license, which ends on Friday, to users of Huawei devices and telecommunications service providers.
Parties must now submit license applications for transactions previously approved by the provisional license.
The source said: The Commercial Department will use permanently restricted permission to Huawei companies to conduct ongoing security investigations to maintain the integrity and reliability of existing networks and devices.