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    US to ease Huawei sanctions for another 90 days

    By Agency Staff19 August 2019
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    The US will extend for another 90 days a narrow set of exemptions that had protected rural networks and other US customers from a ban on doing business with China’s Huawei Technologies, commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said on Monday.

    Some telecommunications companies in the US are “dependent” on Huawei, and thus a 90-day reprieve was deemed appropriate, Ross said in an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo.

    “We’re giving them a little more time to wean themselves off,” he added. Ross said the next deadline will be around 19 November. He added that the commerce department decided to place 46 more Huawei subsidiaries on its Entity List.

    Huawei has been at the heart of worsening tensions and been called a bargaining chip in thorny trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing

    The announcement doesn’t address the wider national security concerns about Huawei and answer the bigger question of whether US chip companies and other major suppliers will be allowed to sell parts to China.

    President Donald Trump over the weekend indicated the US was “doing very well with China, and talking” but also suggested he wasn’t ready to sign a trade deal.

    Stock futures extended gains in New York as investors interpreted the Huawei news as incremental progress toward easing a trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

    Huawei, China’s largest technology company by sales, has been at the heart of worsening tensions and been called a bargaining chip in thorny trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing. Trump had said he anticipated talking to Chinese President Xi Jinping “very soon” and the Huawei move may sweeten the tone of those discussions.

    Vital technology

    Huawei, for its part, has been trying to carry on operations in face of US sanctions on the sale of the vital technology. The company this month announced its in-house HarmonyOS, an open-source operating system that could one day serve as a replacement for Google’s Android if its access to that software is curtailed.

    Without Android or the numerous American silicon, technology and consultancy suppliers that Huawei does business with, many of its most promising product lines would either cease their rapid growth or be thwarted entirely.

    The US commerce department previously granted a three-month temporary licence to Huawei’s US customers shortly after the Trump administration blacklisted the Chinese company. That allowed telecoms carriers in rural areas to continue using Huawei equipment and Google to provide only key Android security updates to Huawei phones.

    US President Donald Trump

    The latest extension came after Trump met in July with the chief executives of key Huawei suppliers from Google and Broadcom to Intel and Qualcomm to discuss economic issues including a possible resumption of sales to Huawei. US companies argued that Huawei will turn to non-American suppliers if sanctions persisted, hurting the US in the long run. But trade talks with Beijing ground to a halt and China refused to resume purchases of American agricultural products.

    The announcement on Monday came one day after Trump suggested that Huawei was unlikely to receive another extension, pushing back against news reports about an expected reprieve.

    It looks much more like we’re not going to do business. I don’t want to do business at all, because it is a national security threat

    “At this moment, it looks much more like we’re not going to do business,” Trump told reporters on Sunday in New Jersey. “I don’t want to do business at all, because it is a national security threat.”

    The president tied trade negotiations with the ongoing situation in Hong Kong, saying that a deal between the US and China would be harder if there’s a violent conclusion to protests there because of concerns raised by US lawmakers.

    Earlier this month, the trade war between the two countries intensified as the US announced a next round of 10% tariffs on Chinese imports between 1 September and 15 December. China responded with a boycott of American farm products and allowed its currency to weaken, signalling that this can help cushion the tariff blow.  — Reported by Vlad Savov, Jordan Fabian and Shawn Donnan, with assistance from Gao Yuan and Kasia Klimasinska, (c) 2019 Bloomberg LP



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