Huawei responded by removing U.S. components Online Cigarettes Store USA from its core products. The company reported global sales rose 18% to $121 billion last year despite the restrictions, though it said smartphone sales suffered after it was blocked from preinstalling music, maps and other services provided by U.S.-based Google.
The new restrictions are separate from those exemptions, but loopholes have allowed U.S. companies Newport Pleasure to supply Huawei with chips made outside the U.S.
The Commerce Department said Friday the new restrictions would “narrowly and strategically" target Huawei’s acquisition of semiconductors that it designs built in overseas foundries that use U.S. software and technology.
Kevin Wolf, an attorney at Akin Gump Cheap Newport Cigarettes Online Sale who oversaw export administration at the Commerce Department during the Obama administration, noted the narrow scope of the rules.
“If a foreign foundry makes a chip based on a Huawei design and U.S. equipment is used to make a chip then it’s controlled, but if a chip is not made from a Huawei design then it is not controlled,” he said.
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