U.S. bans Huawei, ZTE tools gross sales citing nationwide safety threat By Reuters

By Diane Bartz and Alexandra Alper

(Reuters) -The Biden administration has banned approvals of latest telecommunications tools from China’s Huawei Applied sciences and ZTE (HK:) as a result of they pose “an unacceptable threat” to U.S. nationwide safety.

The U.S. Federal Communications Fee stated on Friday it had adopted the ultimate guidelines, which additionally bar the sale or import of kit made by China’s surveillance tools maker Dahua Expertise Co, video surveillance agency Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Expertise Co Ltd and telecoms agency Hytera Communications Corp Ltd.

The transfer represents Washington’s newest crackdown on the Chinese language tech giants amid fears that Beijing may use Chinese language tech corporations to spy on People.

“These new guidelines are an essential a part of our ongoing actions to guard the American folks from nationwide safety threats involving telecommunications,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel stated in an announcement.

Huawei declined to remark. ZTE, Dahua, Hikvision and Hytera didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

Rosenworcel circulated the proposed measure, which successfully bars the corporations from promoting new tools in the USA, to the opposite three commissioners for closing approval final month.

The FCC stated in June 2021 it was contemplating banning all tools authorizations for all corporations on the lined record.

That got here after a March 2021 designation of 5 Chinese language corporations on the so-called “lined record” as posing a risk to nationwide safety below a 2019 legislation geared toward defending U.S. communications networks: Huawei, ZTE, Hytera Communications Corp Hikvision and Dahua.

All 4 commissioners on the company, together with two Republicans and two Democrats, supported Friday’s transfer.