Published 14:17 IST, July 23rd 2019

US Restrictions On Huawei Discussed In Latest Donald Trump Meeting

President Donald Trump met with executives from several of the nation’s leading chip and computer part makers Monday and discussed restrictions his administration has imposed on the sale of components to Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.

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President Donald Trump met with executives from several of nation’s leading chip and computer part makers Monday and discussed restrictions his administration has imposed on sale of components to Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, White House said. 

Huawei is embroiled in a trade dispute between China and U.S. Trump administration in May sanctioned Huawei, which it has deemed a threat to national security, and curbed sales of U.S. equipment to Chinese company. move was widely seen as intended to persuade resistant U.S. allies in Europe to exclude Huawei equipment from ir next-generation wireless networks, kwn as 5G. 

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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recently anunced a partial reprieve: His department will issue export licenses to companies to sell techlogy to prohibited foreign companies such as Huawei only when it’s determined re is threat to national security. 

White House said tech CEOs requested Monday that Commerce Department make timely decisions on equipment sales, and president agreed. executives also expressed optimism about deployment of 5G networks in U.S. 

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Trump’s executive order in May empowered government to ban techlogy and services of “foreign adversaries” deemed to pose “unacceptable risks” to national security. It didn’t name specific countries or companies but followed months of U.S. pressure on Huawei, world’s biggest supplier of network gear. Meanwhile, Trump has been escalating tariffs on Chinese imports. 

CEOs of chipmakers Micron, Qualcomm, Intel and Broadcom attended White House meeting, as well as chief executives of Western Digital, which makes data stor devices and cloud stor, and Cisco, which sells routers, switches and software. 

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companies’ business has been hurt by restrictions over Huawei. 

Also attending was Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google supports Huawei’s smartphones with its Android operating system. tech giant anunced in May it would comply with U.S. restrictions meant to punish Huawei. Google said it would continue to support existing Huawei smartphones but future devices would t have its flagship apps and services, including maps, Gmail and search. Only basic services would be available for future versions. 

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Huawei’s smartphone sales in U.S. are tiny, and Chinese company’s footprint in telecom networks is limited to smaller wireless and internet providers. That means any impact on U.S. consumers of a Google services cutoff would be slight. 

Spokesmen for Google and Intel declined to comment Monday. Qualcomm spokespeople didn’t return a mess seeking comment, and representatives of Micron, Broadcom, Western Digital and Cisco couldn’t immediately be reached. 

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14:16 IST, July 23rd 2019