US officials approve hundreds of millions of dollars worth of applications for Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, to buy car parts.
Huawei, the world's largest maker of telecommunications equipment, is hampered by trade restrictions imposed by the Trump administration on the sale of chips and other components, which are used in network systems and smartphones. The Biden administration has stepped up the tough line on exports to Huawei, denying licenses to sell chips to the company for use in 5g devices.
But the domestic market and chip makers seem to have had other expectations, pushing the US government to add water to its wine, after losing revenue two years ago.
Ερωτηθείς για τις άδειες αυτοκινήτων, ένας εκπρόσωπος του Υπουργείου Εμπορίου των ΗΠΑ, είπε ότι η κυβέρνηση συνεχίζει να εφαρμόζει με συνέπεια τις πολιτικές αδειοδότησης “για να περιορίσει την πρόσβαση της Huawei σε προϊόντα, λογισμικό ή technology for activities that could harm US national security and foreign policy interests."
The Ministry of Commerce is prohibited from disclosing approvals or denials of licenses, the person added.
A Huawei spokesman declined to comment on the licenses, but said: "We are a new provider of intelligently connected vehicle components and our goal is to help carmakers build better vehicles."
Referring to threats to US national security and foreign policy interests, the US has done much to slow the growth of Huawei's core communications-related businesses.
Following Huawei's blacklisting of the US Department of Commerce in 2019, which banned the sale of US products and technology to the company without special licenses, the US last year increased restrictions to restrict the sale of overseas chips with American equipment. He also campaigned to force allies to exclude Huawei from their 5G networks for espionage. Huawei has denied the allegations.
