While trade talks between the U.S. and China continue, Huawei's fate is still hanging on the fence. (Image via: Zero Hedge)

Despite Trump's Vow, Huawei to Be Included in Entity List Still

Alfonsus Adi Putra
Business & Industry
Sci-Tech
Jul 03, 2019
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After all the pleasantries exchanged between Chinese President, Xi Jinping, and the U.S. President, Donald Trump, it is time to get back to reality. While the world hailed the restart of trade talks between the two countries, the main attention went to Trump’s vow for Huawei.

Previously, Trump accused Huawei of invading its users’ privacy and hindering the U.S. sanctions on Iran. Based on these allegations, the U.S. has asked all of its allies to join hand-in-hand to ban Huawei from joining 5G development. To this, Huawei denied any of U.S. allegations. However, look at how the table has turned now.

Meeting on the sidelines of G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, 28-29 June, one of Trump’s promise was that Huawei’s position on entity list would be further scrutinized, giving hope that the Chinese tech giant might be able to continue their business with Uncle Sam.

Huawei’s CEO and founder, Ren Zhengfei, hailed the statement and referred to it as “beneficial” for other American companies.

The world was amused by how Trump managed to regain harmony between the U.S. and China. However, now they are confused once more since John Sonderman, Deputy Director of the Office of Export Enforcement, in the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), sought enforcement staffs of the U.S. Department of Commerce to tell how they should answer to license requirement coming from companies that look forward to trading with Huawei.

Sonderman clarified that despite Trump’s statement, Huawei should still be treated as a “blacklisted” company.

“This party is on the Entity List. Evaluate the associated license review policy under part 744,” wrote he in his e-mail to the enforcement staffs at the U.S. Department of Commerce. The “associated license review policy under part 744” asked by Sonderman to be included as part of the evaluation refers to the regulation covering entity list and “presumption of denial” licensing policy applied on Huawei as one of these blacklisted companies.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Commerce has yet made any statement in response to Sonderman’s e-mail or to Trump’s sweet vow to Huawei.

Source: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-usa-huawei/u-s-government-staff-told-to-treat-huawei-as-blacklisted-idUKKCN1TY07Q?rpc=401&

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