We are about to find out just how heavily U.S. tech firms depend on this banned Chinese manufacturer.
A woman looks at her phone as she walks past a Huawei store in China. By Greg Bensinger and Greg Bensinger Reporter covering algorithms and artificial intelligence Email Bio Follow Reed Albergotti Reed Albergotti Reporter covering consumer electronics Email Bio Follow May 16 at 6:20 PM U.S. suppliers to China-based Huawei would be affected quickly if a ban on exporting hardware and services proposed by the U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday goes into effect.
“This decision is in no one’s interest,” spokesman Chasen Skinner said in an email. “It will do significant economic harm to the American companies with which Huawei does business, affect tens of thousands of jobs, and disrupt the current collaboration and mutual trust that exist on the global supply chain.” He didn’t respond to a request for further comment.Highlighting the risk to American companies, investors punished several Huawei suppliers Thursday by selling off shares.
Such trade bans can be crippling. Trump last year restricted ZTE, another Chinese telecommunications company, from doing business with American firms over violating U.S. sanctions with Iran and North Korea. That effectively prevented the firm from manufacturing new equipment. The administration ultimately lifted its limits on ZTE, which agreed to pay a fine and restructure its management.Representatives for U.S.
Foreign companies that rely on U.S. firms for 25 percent or more of their components probably would also be subject to the disclosure requirements, said Reinsch. In-app purchases could be rendered impossible if transactions routed through Google’s servers aren’t permitted.Attempts by other firms to create a third operating system to compete with Android’s or Apple’s iOS have largely fallen flat in the Western world, meaning Huawei would have few options to make its mobile phones relevant to customers.
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