Donald Trump eases off Huawei as firms discover holes in his export ban

Donald Trump announced that American companies could start selling equipment to Huawei again. The Chinese firm viewed it as a U-turn

summit in Japan, President Donald Trump announced that American companies could once again start selling equipment to Huawei, China’s beleaguered tech giant. Fresh from a meeting with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, Mr Trump said that sales could proceed as long as they did not pose a “great, national emergency problem”.

Things are not so black and white. Before Mr Trump’s announcement and the accompanying flurry of headlines, American chip companies had already restarted at least some of their sales to Huawei. They did so quietly. Two reports, one from Bloomberg and the other in the, cited anonymous sources saying that Intel and Micron, two large American chipmakers, had begun to supply Huawei again in June.

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