The United States has discontinued the release of licenses for companies to export most items for the Chinese tech Huawei giant according to three people familiar with Subject.
Huawei has faced US export restrictions around items for 5G and others technologies for Several years, but the officials in US Department of Trade licenses have been granted for Some American companies to sell certain items and technologies to the company.
Qualcomm in 2020 obtained permission to sell 4G smartphone chips to Huawei.
A Commerce Department spokesperson said officials “constantly evaluate our policies and regulations,” but they don’t comment on talks with specific companies. Huawei and Qualcomm declined to comment. Bloomberg and the Financial Times previously reported that move.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said that China opposes the United States misusing the file overly broad idea of national Security to unreasonably suppress Chinese companies.
the move “he goes against principles of the market economy And rules of international trade Finance, hurt confidence in international community she has in United State business environment “It’s blatant technological domination,” Mao said during a press conference. in Beijing on Tuesday.
One familiar person with The command said US officials creating a new Official policy of denial for Shipping items for Huawei that would include items below 5G level, including 4G items, Wi-Fi 6 and 7, artificial intelligence, high performance computing and cloud items.
someone else said move It was expected to reverse the Biden administration’s tightening of policy on Huawei over the past year. licenses for Fourth generation chips that cannot be used for 5G, which may have been approved earlier, was denied, the person said. towards the end of Trump administration and early in The Biden administration, officials are still giving out licenses for items for 4G applications.
US officials put Huawei on a trade blacklist in 2019 restrict most US suppliers from shipping freight and technology company unless they are granted licenses. Officials continued to tighten controls To cut off Huawei ability to buy or design semiconductor chips power bone of its products.
But US officials granted licenses that allowed Huawei to receive some products. For example, Huawei suppliers have obtained licenses worth $61 billion sold to Telecom equipment Giant from April until November 2021.
In December, Huawei said its total revenue was about $91.53 billion, down Just slightly from 2021 when the US sanctions caused Its sales drop by about a third.
