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    Home » World » Trump administration takes a final swipe at Huawei

    Trump administration takes a final swipe at Huawei

    By Agency Staff18 January 2021
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    The Trump administration has notified Huawei suppliers, including chip maker Intel, that it is revoking certain licences to sell to the Chinese company and intends to reject dozens of other applications to supply the telecommunications firm, people familiar with the matter said.

    The action — likely the last against Huawei Technologies under Republican President Donald Trump — is the latest in a long-running effort to weaken the world’s largest telecoms equipment maker, which Washington sees as a national security threat.

    The notices came amid a flurry of US efforts against China in the final days of Trump’s administration. Democrat Joe Biden will take the oath of office as president on Wednesday.

    The US put Huawei on a commerce department ‘Entity List’ in May 2019, restricting suppliers from selling US goods and technology to it

    Huawei and Intel declined to comment. Commerce said it could not comment on specific licensing decisions, but said the department continues to work with other agencies to “consistently” apply licensing policies in a way that “protects US national security and foreign policy interests”.

    In an e-mail documenting the actions, the Semiconductor Industry Association said on Friday that the commerce department had issued “intents to deny a significant number of licence requests for exports to Huawei and a revocation of at least one previously issued licence”. Sources familiar with the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there was more than one revocation. One of the sources said eight licences were yanked from four companies.

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    Japanese flash memory chip maker Kioxia had at least one licence revoked, two of the sources said. The company, formerly known as Toshiba Memory, said it does not “disclose business details regarding specific products or customers”.

    The semiconductor association’s e-mail said the actions spanned a “broad range” of products in the semiconductor industry and asked companies whether they had received notices.

    The e-mail noted that companies had been waiting “many months” for licensing decisions, and with less than a week left in the administration, dealing with the denials was a challenge.

    A spokesman for the semiconductor group did not respond to a request for comment.

    Companies that received the “intent to deny” notices have 20 days to respond, and the commerce department has 45 days to advise them of any change in a decision or it becomes final. Companies would then have another 45 days to appeal.

    The US put Huawei on a commerce department “Entity List” in May 2019, restricting suppliers from selling US goods and technology to it.

    But some sales were allowed and others denied while the US intensified its crackdown on the company, in part by expanding US authority to require licences for sales of semiconductors made abroad with American technology.

    Products with 5G capabilities were likely to be rejected, but sales of less sophisticated technology would be decided on a case-by-case basis

    Before the latest action, some 150 licences were pending for US$120-billion worth of goods and technology, which had been held up because various US agencies could not agree on whether they should be granted, a person familiar with the matter said.

    Another $280-billion of licence applications for goods and technology for Huawei still have not been processed, the source said, but now are more likely to be denied.

    Intel has received licences from US authorities to continue supplying certain products to Huawei, an Intel spokesman said in September last year.

    Detailed guidance

    An August rule said that products with 5G capabilities were likely to be rejected, but sales of less sophisticated technology would be decided on a case-by-case basis.

    The US made the latest decisions during half a dozen meetings starting on 4 January with senior officials from the departments of commerce, state, defence and energy, the source said. The officials developed detailed guidance with regard to which technologies were capable of 5G, and then applied that standard, the person added.

    That meant issuing denials for the vast majority of the roughly 150 disputed applications, and revoking the eight licences to make those consistent with the latest denials, the source said.

    The US action came after pressure from a recent Trump appointee in the commerce department, Corey Stewart, who wanted to push through hardline China policies after being hired for a two-month stint in the agency at the end of the administration.  — Reported by Karen Freifeld and Alexandra Alper, with additional reporting by David Kirton and Hideyuki Sano, (c) 2021 Reuters



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