[ad_1]
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration said on Friday (May 15) that it would restrict the ability of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, which it considers a national security risk, to develop semiconductors abroad with American technology.
“This announcement cuts Huawei’s efforts to undermine US export controls,” the Commerce Department said in a statement.
Ad
READ: Trump extends order for US telecommunications supply chain USA Aimed at Huawei and ZTE
READ: Drafts of US Standards USA Allow Huawei and American companies to work together on 5G standards: Sources
The department said it “would narrowly and strategically target the acquisition of Huawei semiconductors that are the direct product of certain software and technology from the United States.”
Huawei has come under unrelenting pressure from Washington, which has pressured allies around the world to avoid the company’s telecommunications equipment over security concerns, in the shadow of a broader trade conflict between the United States and China.
Ad
Last year, Washington said it would blacklist the U.S. market and buy crucial U.S. components, though it has extended a series of suspensions to allow U.S. companies working with Huawei to have time to adjust.
On Friday he extended this postponement for another 90 days.
READ: The Trump administration is pushing to rip China’s global supply chains: officials
READ: Huawei’s chip unit orders more domestic production as US restrictions loom
The Commerce Department said that since it blacklisted Huawei in 2019, companies that wanted to export items from the US. USA They had to get a license.
But Huawei continued to use US software and technology. USA To design semiconductors by commissioning their production at foundries abroad using American equipment, he said.
“Huawei and its foreign affiliates have intensified their efforts to undermine these national security-based restrictions through an indigenization effort. However, that effort still depends on US technologies,” said Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
“This is not how a responsible global corporate citizen behaves.”
