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Calculated Shard: 25 (from laksa021)

2. Crawled Status Check

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa025.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-24/huawei-export-ban-us-companies-confusion\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-24/huawei-export-ban-us-companies-confusion\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2019-10-24\/huawei-export-ban-us-companies-confusion","crawl_time":1776484977,"first_indexed_time":1571918732,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,latimes!www,\/business\/story\/2019-10-24\/huawei-export-ban-us-companies-confusion s443","src_root_hash":"7344800029135033825","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Five months after Huawei export ban, U.S. companies are confused - Los Angeles Times","meta_descriptions":["Five months after the Trump administration blacklisted China’s Huawei Technologies Co., U.S. firms don’t know if they can work with the Chinese company."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Five months after the Trump administration blacklisted China’s Huawei Technologies Co., its business seems alive and well while American firms still don’t know whether they can work with the Chinese company.\nThe Department of Commerce in May added Huawei to what’s known as the entity list in an effort to block U.S. companies from selling components to China’s largest technology company, which it accuses of being a threat to America’s national security. Huawei has denied those claims.\nDespite those actions, Huawei\nreported\nlast week that its revenue grew 24% in the first ninth months of 2019, boosted by a 26% jump in smartphone shipments. There are also signs that U.S. efforts to block the company from the development of 5G technology have yet to make a big dent: Huawei said it has signed more than 60 5G commercial contracts to date worldwide.\nThe entity listing, which requires American firms to obtain a government license in order to sell to blacklisted firms, has caused complications for U.S. companies.\nTech leaders and their lawyers have argued for months in closed-door meetings with Trump administration officials that the blacklisting of Huawei, one of their biggest customers, is detrimental to their businesses. Many industry executives are confused about the administration’s end goals and haven’t been able to get clarity on when license approvals will be offered despite those discussions, according to several people familiar with the matter.\nPresident Trump said in June after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Osaka, Japan, that he’d “easily” agreed to allow American firms to continue certain exports to Huawei. Weeks later Trump said he’d accelerate the approval process for licenses, but none has been granted so far. The president as recently as this month green-lighted the approval of licenses in a meeting with advisors, according to people familiar with the matter, but an announcement has yet to be made.\nThe Commerce Department, in a statement, said it has received more than 200 license requests about Huawei and its affiliates. “Given the complexity of the matter, the interagency process is ongoing to ensure we correctly identified which licenses were safe to approve,” according to the statement. “Moreover, the Temporary General License remains in effect and was recently renewed.”\nMicron Technology Inc. Chief Executive Sanjay Mehrotra said in September that the lack of decision on its license applications could result in a worsening decline in sales over the coming quarters. The company gave a\ndisappointing quarterly profit\nforecast last month, pointing in part to the Huawei restrictions. Broadcom Inc. in June also slashed its annual forecast, citing the U.S.-China trade war and disruption to its relationship with Huawei.\nOne of the industry’s main arguments for allowing shipments of non-national security-sensitive items is that Huawei can buy some of those components from competitors around the world, including South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.\n“Unless the ban succeeds in ‘killing’ Huawei, the result will be reduced U.S. global market share in a number of technology areas, something that will hurt, not help U.S. tech competitiveness,” said Robert Atkinson, president of ITIF, a Washington-based think tank.\nSome firms have resumed shipments to Huawei even without a verdict on license requests. After a closer look at the rules since May, they determined they could continue supplying products based on an export control law. The rule doesn’t subject a product or service to the entity listing’s constraints if a company can prove that a piece of technology owes less than 25% of its origins to U.S.-based activities.\nMicron in June said it had resumed some memory chip shipments to Huawei. Intel Corp., the U.S.’s biggest chipmaker with plants in Oregon, New Mexico and Arizona, has as well. The company also has facilities in Ireland, Israel and China -- enabling it to argue that a chunk of the intellectual property in its chips isn’t created in the U.S.\n“We know many U.S. companies continue to ship to Huawei but do so using murky workarounds by way of other countries and third parties,” said Samm Sacks, a cybersecurity fellow at New America, a think tank. “It’s questionable whether the Huawei ban has helped U.S. national security so much as created a messy tangle of new problems.”\nJames McGregor, chairman of consulting firm APCO Worldwide’s greater China region, said he’s focused on what unintended consequences may result from the White House’s actions.\n“I’m worried about tech companies decoupling from America over time by removing some of their operations from the U.S.,” McGregor said in an\ninterview\nwith Bloomberg Television on Monday. “They have to look out for the long-term disruption of their business.”\nAtkinson cautioned not to over-interpret Huawei’s sales figures because the company has been stockpiling supplies for a while, in anticipation of the U.S. action. He said fourth-quarter sales will be a more accurate indicator of the export ban’s effect, or whether the company has largely circumvented it.\nHuawei has said it expects U.S. export restrictions to reduce annual revenue at its consumer devices business by about $10 billion, in part because Google can no longer supply Android updates and apps from Gmail to Maps for the Chinese company’s newest handsets.\nTrump has indicated on various occasions that he’d be willing to consider removing the ban on Huawei for better terms in a trade agreement, drawing sharp criticism from China hawks on Capitol Hill.\nWith the U.S. reaching a “phase one” deal with China earlier this month, the big question now is whether Trump will consider removing Huawei from the entity list or ease restrictions. When announcing the accord on Oct. 11, the administration said the issue wouldn’t be part of this initial pact but that it could be a part of phase two.\nLeonard and King write for Bloomberg.\nMore to Read","attrs_markdown":"- [News](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/)\n  \n  - [Home Page](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/)\n  - [California](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california)\n  - [Election 2024](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/election-2024)\n  - [Housing & Homelessness](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/homeless-housing)\n  - [Politics](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics)\n  - [Science & Medicine](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science)\n  - [World & Nation](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation)\n- [Business](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business)\n  \n  - [Artificial Intelligence](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/artificial-intelligence)\n  - [Autos](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/autos)\n  - [Jobs, Labor & Workplace](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/jobs-labor)\n  - [Real Estate](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/real-estate)\n  - [Technology and the Internet](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology)\n- [California](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california)\n  \n  - [California Politics](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/california-law-politics)\n  - [Earthquakes](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/earthquakes)\n  - [Education](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/education)\n  - [Housing & Homelessness](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/homeless-housing)\n  - [L.A. 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Huawei has denied those claims.\n\nDespite those actions, Huawei [reported](https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-10-16\/huawei-defies-u-s-ban-with-torrid-growth-in-smartphone-sales) last week that its revenue grew 24% in the first ninth months of 2019, boosted by a 26% jump in smartphone shipments. There are also signs that U.S. efforts to block the company from the development of 5G technology have yet to make a big dent: Huawei said it has signed more than 60 5G commercial contracts to date worldwide.\n\nAdvertisement\n\nThe entity listing, which requires American firms to obtain a government license in order to sell to blacklisted firms, has caused complications for U.S. companies.\n\nTech leaders and their lawyers have argued for months in closed-door meetings with Trump administration officials that the blacklisting of Huawei, one of their biggest customers, is detrimental to their businesses. Many industry executives are confused about the administration’s end goals and haven’t been able to get clarity on when license approvals will be offered despite those discussions, according to several people familiar with the matter.\n\n[Business](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business)\n\n### [The man behind Huawei](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-the-man-behind-huawei-20190410-story.html)\n\nRen Zhengfei turned a company with no intellectual property into the world’s largest telecom and made China a global leader in 5G technology.\n\nApril 10, 2019\n\nPresident Trump said in June after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Osaka, Japan, that he’d “easily” agreed to allow American firms to continue certain exports to Huawei. Weeks later Trump said he’d accelerate the approval process for licenses, but none has been granted so far. The president as recently as this month green-lighted the approval of licenses in a meeting with advisors, according to people familiar with the matter, but an announcement has yet to be made.\n\nAdvertisement\n\nThe Commerce Department, in a statement, said it has received more than 200 license requests about Huawei and its affiliates. “Given the complexity of the matter, the interagency process is ongoing to ensure we correctly identified which licenses were safe to approve,” according to the statement. “Moreover, the Temporary General License remains in effect and was recently renewed.”\n\nMicron Technology Inc. Chief Executive Sanjay Mehrotra said in September that the lack of decision on its license applications could result in a worsening decline in sales over the coming quarters. The company gave a [disappointing quarterly profit](https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-09-26\/micron-gives-disappointing-profit-forecast-sending-shares-lower) forecast last month, pointing in part to the Huawei restrictions. Broadcom Inc. in June also slashed its annual forecast, citing the U.S.-China trade war and disruption to its relationship with Huawei.\n\nOne of the industry’s main arguments for allowing shipments of non-national security-sensitive items is that Huawei can buy some of those components from competitors around the world, including South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.\n\n“Unless the ban succeeds in ‘killing’ Huawei, the result will be reduced U.S. global market share in a number of technology areas, something that will hurt, not help U.S. tech competitiveness,” said Robert Atkinson, president of ITIF, a Washington-based think tank.\n\n[![A Huawei store’s window reflects the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/c38869c\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/830x553+5+0\/resize\/840x560!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff6%2Faa%2Fa0c87f8f4991bcb4454e64c000b2%2Fhuawei.jpg)](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology\/story\/2019-09-04\/huawei-us-cyber-attacks-coercing-employees)\n\n[Technology and the Internet](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology)\n\n### [Huawei accuses U.S. of cyberattacks, coercing employees](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology\/story\/2019-09-04\/huawei-us-cyber-attacks-coercing-employees)\n\nThe United States, Australia, Japan and some other governments have imposed restrictions on use of Huawei technology, calling the Chinese telecom equipment maker a security risk.\n\nSept. 4, 2019\n\nSome firms have resumed shipments to Huawei even without a verdict on license requests. After a closer look at the rules since May, they determined they could continue supplying products based on an export control law. The rule doesn’t subject a product or service to the entity listing’s constraints if a company can prove that a piece of technology owes less than 25% of its origins to U.S.-based activities.\n\nMicron in June said it had resumed some memory chip shipments to Huawei. Intel Corp., the U.S.’s biggest chipmaker with plants in Oregon, New Mexico and Arizona, has as well. The company also has facilities in Ireland, Israel and China -- enabling it to argue that a chunk of the intellectual property in its chips isn’t created in the U.S.\n\nAdvertisement\n\n“We know many U.S. companies continue to ship to Huawei but do so using murky workarounds by way of other countries and third parties,” said Samm Sacks, a cybersecurity fellow at New America, a think tank. “It’s questionable whether the Huawei ban has helped U.S. national security so much as created a messy tangle of new problems.”\n\nJames McGregor, chairman of consulting firm APCO Worldwide’s greater China region, said he’s focused on what unintended consequences may result from the White House’s actions.\n\n“I’m worried about tech companies decoupling from America over time by removing some of their operations from the U.S.,” McGregor said in an [interview](https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2019-10-21\/china-is-going-to-ride-it-out-for-a-while-says-apco-worldwide-s-mcgregor-video) with Bloomberg Television on Monday. “They have to look out for the long-term disruption of their business.”\n\n[![FILE - In this Tuesday, May 21, 2019 file photo, a member of the media tries out new Huawei Honor 20 series of phones following their global launch in London. Facebook has stopped letting its apps come pre-installed on smartphones sold by Huawei to comply with U.S. restrictions, dealing a fresh blow to the Chinese tech giant. The social network said Friday, June 7 it suspended providing software for Huawei to put on its devices while it reviews recently introduced U.S. sanctions. 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He said fourth-quarter sales will be a more accurate indicator of the export ban’s effect, or whether the company has largely circumvented it.\n\nHuawei has said it expects U.S. export restrictions to reduce annual revenue at its consumer devices business by about \\$10 billion, in part because Google can no longer supply Android updates and apps from Gmail to Maps for the Chinese company’s newest handsets.\n\nTrump has indicated on various occasions that he’d be willing to consider removing the ban on Huawei for better terms in a trade agreement, drawing sharp criticism from China hawks on Capitol Hill.\n\nAdvertisement\n\nWith the U.S. reaching a “phase one” deal with China earlier this month, the big question now is whether Trump will consider removing Huawei from the entity list or ease restrictions. 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Huawei has denied those claims.\n\nDespite those actions, Huawei [reported](https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-10-16\/huawei-defies-u-s-ban-with-torrid-growth-in-smartphone-sales) last week that its revenue grew 24% in the first ninth months of 2019, boosted by a 26% jump in smartphone shipments. There are also signs that U.S. efforts to block the company from the development of 5G technology have yet to make a big dent: Huawei said it has signed more than 60 5G commercial contracts to date worldwide.\n\nThe entity listing, which requires American firms to obtain a government license in order to sell to blacklisted firms, has caused complications for U.S. companies.\n\nTech leaders and their lawyers have argued for months in closed-door meetings with Trump administration officials that the blacklisting of Huawei, one of their biggest customers, is detrimental to their businesses. Many industry executives are confused about the administration’s end goals and haven’t been able to get clarity on when license approvals will be offered despite those discussions, according to several people familiar with the matter.\n\nPresident Trump said in June after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Osaka, Japan, that he’d “easily” agreed to allow American firms to continue certain exports to Huawei. Weeks later Trump said he’d accelerate the approval process for licenses, but none has been granted so far. The president as recently as this month green-lighted the approval of licenses in a meeting with advisors, according to people familiar with the matter, but an announcement has yet to be made.\n\nThe Commerce Department, in a statement, said it has received more than 200 license requests about Huawei and its affiliates. “Given the complexity of the matter, the interagency process is ongoing to ensure we correctly identified which licenses were safe to approve,” according to the statement. “Moreover, the Temporary General License remains in effect and was recently renewed.”\n\nMicron Technology Inc. Chief Executive Sanjay Mehrotra said in September that the lack of decision on its license applications could result in a worsening decline in sales over the coming quarters. The company gave a [disappointing quarterly profit](https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-09-26\/micron-gives-disappointing-profit-forecast-sending-shares-lower) forecast last month, pointing in part to the Huawei restrictions. Broadcom Inc. in June also slashed its annual forecast, citing the U.S.-China trade war and disruption to its relationship with Huawei.\n\nOne of the industry’s main arguments for allowing shipments of non-national security-sensitive items is that Huawei can buy some of those components from competitors around the world, including South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.\n\n“Unless the ban succeeds in ‘killing’ Huawei, the result will be reduced U.S. global market share in a number of technology areas, something that will hurt, not help U.S. tech competitiveness,” said Robert Atkinson, president of ITIF, a Washington-based think tank.\n\nSome firms have resumed shipments to Huawei even without a verdict on license requests. After a closer look at the rules since May, they determined they could continue supplying products based on an export control law. The rule doesn’t subject a product or service to the entity listing’s constraints if a company can prove that a piece of technology owes less than 25% of its origins to U.S.-based activities.\n\nMicron in June said it had resumed some memory chip shipments to Huawei. Intel Corp., the U.S.’s biggest chipmaker with plants in Oregon, New Mexico and Arizona, has as well. The company also has facilities in Ireland, Israel and China -- enabling it to argue that a chunk of the intellectual property in its chips isn’t created in the U.S.\n\n“We know many U.S. companies continue to ship to Huawei but do so using murky workarounds by way of other countries and third parties,” said Samm Sacks, a cybersecurity fellow at New America, a think tank. “It’s questionable whether the Huawei ban has helped U.S. national security so much as created a messy tangle of new problems.”\n\nJames McGregor, chairman of consulting firm APCO Worldwide’s greater China region, said he’s focused on what unintended consequences may result from the White House’s actions.\n\n“I’m worried about tech companies decoupling from America over time by removing some of their operations from the U.S.,” McGregor said in an [interview](https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2019-10-21\/china-is-going-to-ride-it-out-for-a-while-says-apco-worldwide-s-mcgregor-video) with Bloomberg Television on Monday. “They have to look out for the long-term disruption of their business.”\n\nAtkinson cautioned not to over-interpret Huawei’s sales figures because the company has been stockpiling supplies for a while, in anticipation of the U.S. action. He said fourth-quarter sales will be a more accurate indicator of the export ban’s effect, or whether the company has largely circumvented it.\n\nHuawei has said it expects U.S. export restrictions to reduce annual revenue at its consumer devices business by about \\$10 billion, in part because Google can no longer supply Android updates and apps from Gmail to Maps for the Chinese company’s newest handsets.\n\nTrump has indicated on various occasions that he’d be willing to consider removing the ban on Huawei for better terms in a trade agreement, drawing sharp criticism from China hawks on Capitol Hill.\n\nWith the U.S. reaching a “phase one” deal with China earlier this month, the big question now is whether Trump will consider removing Huawei from the entity list or ease restrictions. 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Boilerpipe Text	Five months after the Trump administration blacklisted China’s Huawei Technologies Co., its business seems alive and well while American firms still don’t know whether they can work with the Chinese company. The Department of Commerce in May added Huawei to what’s known as the entity list in an effort to block U.S. companies from selling components to China’s largest technology company, which it accuses of being a threat to America’s national security. Huawei has denied those claims. Despite those actions, Huawei reported last week that its revenue grew 24% in the first ninth months of 2019, boosted by a 26% jump in smartphone shipments. There are also signs that U.S. efforts to block the company from the development of 5G technology have yet to make a big dent: Huawei said it has signed more than 60 5G commercial contracts to date worldwide. The entity listing, which requires American firms to obtain a government license in order to sell to blacklisted firms, has caused complications for U.S. companies. Tech leaders and their lawyers have argued for months in closed-door meetings with Trump administration officials that the blacklisting of Huawei, one of their biggest customers, is detrimental to their businesses. Many industry executives are confused about the administration’s end goals and haven’t been able to get clarity on when license approvals will be offered despite those discussions, according to several people familiar with the matter. President Trump said in June after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Osaka, Japan, that he’d “easily” agreed to allow American firms to continue certain exports to Huawei. Weeks later Trump said he’d accelerate the approval process for licenses, but none has been granted so far. The president as recently as this month green-lighted the approval of licenses in a meeting with advisors, according to people familiar with the matter, but an announcement has yet to be made. The Commerce Department, in a statement, said it has received more than 200 license requests about Huawei and its affiliates. “Given the complexity of the matter, the interagency process is ongoing to ensure we correctly identified which licenses were safe to approve,” according to the statement. “Moreover, the Temporary General License remains in effect and was recently renewed.” Micron Technology Inc. Chief Executive Sanjay Mehrotra said in September that the lack of decision on its license applications could result in a worsening decline in sales over the coming quarters. The company gave a disappointing quarterly profit forecast last month, pointing in part to the Huawei restrictions. Broadcom Inc. in June also slashed its annual forecast, citing the U.S.-China trade war and disruption to its relationship with Huawei. One of the industry’s main arguments for allowing shipments of non-national security-sensitive items is that Huawei can buy some of those components from competitors around the world, including South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. “Unless the ban succeeds in ‘killing’ Huawei, the result will be reduced U.S. global market share in a number of technology areas, something that will hurt, not help U.S. tech competitiveness,” said Robert Atkinson, president of ITIF, a Washington-based think tank. Some firms have resumed shipments to Huawei even without a verdict on license requests. After a closer look at the rules since May, they determined they could continue supplying products based on an export control law. The rule doesn’t subject a product or service to the entity listing’s constraints if a company can prove that a piece of technology owes less than 25% of its origins to U.S.-based activities. Micron in June said it had resumed some memory chip shipments to Huawei. Intel Corp., the U.S.’s biggest chipmaker with plants in Oregon, New Mexico and Arizona, has as well. The company also has facilities in Ireland, Israel and China -- enabling it to argue that a chunk of the intellectual property in its chips isn’t created in the U.S. “We know many U.S. companies continue to ship to Huawei but do so using murky workarounds by way of other countries and third parties,” said Samm Sacks, a cybersecurity fellow at New America, a think tank. “It’s questionable whether the Huawei ban has helped U.S. national security so much as created a messy tangle of new problems.” James McGregor, chairman of consulting firm APCO Worldwide’s greater China region, said he’s focused on what unintended consequences may result from the White House’s actions. “I’m worried about tech companies decoupling from America over time by removing some of their operations from the U.S.,” McGregor said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Monday. “They have to look out for the long-term disruption of their business.” Atkinson cautioned not to over-interpret Huawei’s sales figures because the company has been stockpiling supplies for a while, in anticipation of the U.S. action. He said fourth-quarter sales will be a more accurate indicator of the export ban’s effect, or whether the company has largely circumvented it. Huawei has said it expects U.S. export restrictions to reduce annual revenue at its consumer devices business by about $10 billion, in part because Google can no longer supply Android updates and apps from Gmail to Maps for the Chinese company’s newest handsets. Trump has indicated on various occasions that he’d be willing to consider removing the ban on Huawei for better terms in a trade agreement, drawing sharp criticism from China hawks on Capitol Hill. With the U.S. reaching a “phase one” deal with China earlier this month, the big question now is whether Trump will consider removing Huawei from the entity list or ease restrictions. When announcing the accord on Oct. 11, the administration said the issue wouldn’t be part of this initial pact but that it could be a part of phase two. Leonard and King write for Bloomberg. More to Read
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Focus mode Show Search Advertisement [Business](https://www.latimes.com/business) # Five months after Huawei export ban, U.S. companies are confused ![A Huawei store in Beijing.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1e1ca54/2147483647/strip/true/crop/840x553+0+0/resize/1200x790!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff6%2Faa%2Fa0c87f8f4991bcb4454e64c000b2%2Fhuawei.jpg) A Huawei store in Beijing. (Associated Press) By Jenny Leonard and Ian King Bloomberg Oct. 24, 2019 5 AM PT - Share via Close extra sharing options - [Email](mailto:?body=Five%20months%20after%20Huawei%20export%20ban%2C%20U.S.%20companies%20are%20confused%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fstory%2F2019-10-24%2Fhuawei-export-ban-us-companies-confusion%0A%0AFive%20months%20after%20the%20Trump%20administration%20blacklisted%20China%E2%80%99s%20Huawei%20Technologies%20Co.%2C%20U.S.%20firms%20don%E2%80%99t%20know%20if%20they%20can%20work%20with%20the%20Chinese%20company.) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fstory%2F2019-10-24%2Fhuawei-export-ban-us-companies-confusion) - [X](https://x.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fstory%2F2019-10-24%2Fhuawei-export-ban-us-companies-confusion&text=Five%20months%20after%20Huawei%20export%20ban%2C%20U.S.%20companies%20are%20confused) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fstory%2F2019-10-24%2Fhuawei-export-ban-us-companies-confusion&title=Five%20months%20after%20Huawei%20export%20ban%2C%20U.S.%20companies%20are%20confused&summary=Five%20months%20after%20the%20Trump%20administration%20blacklisted%20China%E2%80%99s%20Huawei%20Technologies%20Co.%2C%20U.S.%20firms%20don%E2%80%99t%20know%20if%20they%20can%20work%20with%20the%20Chinese%20company.&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times) - [Threads](https://threads.net/intent/post?text=Five%20months%20after%20Huawei%20export%20ban%2C%20U.S.%20companies%20are%20confused%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fstory%2F2019-10-24%2Fhuawei-export-ban-us-companies-confusion) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fstory%2F2019-10-24%2Fhuawei-export-ban-us-companies-confusion&title=Five%20months%20after%20Huawei%20export%20ban%2C%20U.S.%20companies%20are%20confused) - [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Five%20months%20after%20Huawei%20export%20ban%2C%20U.S.%20companies%20are%20confused%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fstory%2F2019-10-24%2Fhuawei-export-ban-us-companies-confusion) - Copy Link URL Copied\! - Print Five months after the Trump administration blacklisted China’s Huawei Technologies Co., its business seems alive and well while American firms still don’t know whether they can work with the Chinese company. The Department of Commerce in May added Huawei to what’s known as the entity list in an effort to block U.S. companies from selling components to China’s largest technology company, which it accuses of being a threat to America’s national security. Huawei has denied those claims. Despite those actions, Huawei [reported](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-16/huawei-defies-u-s-ban-with-torrid-growth-in-smartphone-sales) last week that its revenue grew 24% in the first ninth months of 2019, boosted by a 26% jump in smartphone shipments. There are also signs that U.S. efforts to block the company from the development of 5G technology have yet to make a big dent: Huawei said it has signed more than 60 5G commercial contracts to date worldwide. Advertisement The entity listing, which requires American firms to obtain a government license in order to sell to blacklisted firms, has caused complications for U.S. companies. Tech leaders and their lawyers have argued for months in closed-door meetings with Trump administration officials that the blacklisting of Huawei, one of their biggest customers, is detrimental to their businesses. Many industry executives are confused about the administration’s end goals and haven’t been able to get clarity on when license approvals will be offered despite those discussions, according to several people familiar with the matter. [Business](https://www.latimes.com/business) ### [The man behind Huawei](https://www.latimes.com/la-the-man-behind-huawei-20190410-story.html) Ren Zhengfei turned a company with no intellectual property into the world’s largest telecom and made China a global leader in 5G technology. April 10, 2019 President Trump said in June after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Osaka, Japan, that he’d “easily” agreed to allow American firms to continue certain exports to Huawei. Weeks later Trump said he’d accelerate the approval process for licenses, but none has been granted so far. The president as recently as this month green-lighted the approval of licenses in a meeting with advisors, according to people familiar with the matter, but an announcement has yet to be made. Advertisement The Commerce Department, in a statement, said it has received more than 200 license requests about Huawei and its affiliates. “Given the complexity of the matter, the interagency process is ongoing to ensure we correctly identified which licenses were safe to approve,” according to the statement. “Moreover, the Temporary General License remains in effect and was recently renewed.” Micron Technology Inc. Chief Executive Sanjay Mehrotra said in September that the lack of decision on its license applications could result in a worsening decline in sales over the coming quarters. The company gave a [disappointing quarterly profit](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-26/micron-gives-disappointing-profit-forecast-sending-shares-lower) forecast last month, pointing in part to the Huawei restrictions. Broadcom Inc. in June also slashed its annual forecast, citing the U.S.-China trade war and disruption to its relationship with Huawei. One of the industry’s main arguments for allowing shipments of non-national security-sensitive items is that Huawei can buy some of those components from competitors around the world, including South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. “Unless the ban succeeds in ‘killing’ Huawei, the result will be reduced U.S. global market share in a number of technology areas, something that will hurt, not help U.S. tech competitiveness,” said Robert Atkinson, president of ITIF, a Washington-based think tank. [![A Huawei store’s window reflects the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c38869c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/830x553+5+0/resize/840x560!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff6%2Faa%2Fa0c87f8f4991bcb4454e64c000b2%2Fhuawei.jpg)](https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-09-04/huawei-us-cyber-attacks-coercing-employees) [Technology and the Internet](https://www.latimes.com/business/technology) ### [Huawei accuses U.S. of cyberattacks, coercing employees](https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-09-04/huawei-us-cyber-attacks-coercing-employees) The United States, Australia, Japan and some other governments have imposed restrictions on use of Huawei technology, calling the Chinese telecom equipment maker a security risk. Sept. 4, 2019 Some firms have resumed shipments to Huawei even without a verdict on license requests. After a closer look at the rules since May, they determined they could continue supplying products based on an export control law. The rule doesn’t subject a product or service to the entity listing’s constraints if a company can prove that a piece of technology owes less than 25% of its origins to U.S.-based activities. Micron in June said it had resumed some memory chip shipments to Huawei. Intel Corp., the U.S.’s biggest chipmaker with plants in Oregon, New Mexico and Arizona, has as well. The company also has facilities in Ireland, Israel and China -- enabling it to argue that a chunk of the intellectual property in its chips isn’t created in the U.S. Advertisement “We know many U.S. companies continue to ship to Huawei but do so using murky workarounds by way of other countries and third parties,” said Samm Sacks, a cybersecurity fellow at New America, a think tank. “It’s questionable whether the Huawei ban has helped U.S. national security so much as created a messy tangle of new problems.” James McGregor, chairman of consulting firm APCO Worldwide’s greater China region, said he’s focused on what unintended consequences may result from the White House’s actions. “I’m worried about tech companies decoupling from America over time by removing some of their operations from the U.S.,” McGregor said in an [interview](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-10-21/china-is-going-to-ride-it-out-for-a-while-says-apco-worldwide-s-mcgregor-video) with Bloomberg Television on Monday. “They have to look out for the long-term disruption of their business.” [![FILE - In this Tuesday, May 21, 2019 file photo, a member of the media tries out new Huawei Honor 20 series of phones following their global launch in London. Facebook has stopped letting its apps come pre-installed on smartphones sold by Huawei to comply with U.S. restrictions, dealing a fresh blow to the Chinese tech giant. The social network said Friday, June 7 it suspended providing software for Huawei to put on its devices while it reviews recently introduced U.S. sanctions. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, file)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/84bf5cb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1728x1152+160+0/resize/840x560!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F18%2F2a%2F22289f4a6250faf4d6e45c1e31c2%2Fla-1560539596-igu9jp2zww-snap-image)](https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-huawei-patents-telecom-20190614-story.html) [Business](https://www.latimes.com/business) ### [Huawei has 56,492 patents, and it’s not afraid to use them](https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-huawei-patents-telecom-20190614-story.html) As Huawei Technologies Co. comes under unrelenting pressure from the Trump administration, the Chinese telecom giant has one advantage that the U.S. can’t undermine: a vast, global portfolio of patents on critical technology. June 14, 2019 Atkinson cautioned not to over-interpret Huawei’s sales figures because the company has been stockpiling supplies for a while, in anticipation of the U.S. action. He said fourth-quarter sales will be a more accurate indicator of the export ban’s effect, or whether the company has largely circumvented it. Huawei has said it expects U.S. export restrictions to reduce annual revenue at its consumer devices business by about \$10 billion, in part because Google can no longer supply Android updates and apps from Gmail to Maps for the Chinese company’s newest handsets. Trump has indicated on various occasions that he’d be willing to consider removing the ban on Huawei for better terms in a trade agreement, drawing sharp criticism from China hawks on Capitol Hill. Advertisement With the U.S. reaching a “phase one” deal with China earlier this month, the big question now is whether Trump will consider removing Huawei from the entity list or ease restrictions. When announcing the accord on Oct. 11, the administration said the issue wouldn’t be part of this initial pact but that it could be a part of phase two. 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Readable Markdown	Five months after the Trump administration blacklisted China’s Huawei Technologies Co., its business seems alive and well while American firms still don’t know whether they can work with the Chinese company. The Department of Commerce in May added Huawei to what’s known as the entity list in an effort to block U.S. companies from selling components to China’s largest technology company, which it accuses of being a threat to America’s national security. Huawei has denied those claims. Despite those actions, Huawei [reported](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-16/huawei-defies-u-s-ban-with-torrid-growth-in-smartphone-sales) last week that its revenue grew 24% in the first ninth months of 2019, boosted by a 26% jump in smartphone shipments. There are also signs that U.S. efforts to block the company from the development of 5G technology have yet to make a big dent: Huawei said it has signed more than 60 5G commercial contracts to date worldwide. The entity listing, which requires American firms to obtain a government license in order to sell to blacklisted firms, has caused complications for U.S. companies. Tech leaders and their lawyers have argued for months in closed-door meetings with Trump administration officials that the blacklisting of Huawei, one of their biggest customers, is detrimental to their businesses. Many industry executives are confused about the administration’s end goals and haven’t been able to get clarity on when license approvals will be offered despite those discussions, according to several people familiar with the matter. President Trump said in June after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Osaka, Japan, that he’d “easily” agreed to allow American firms to continue certain exports to Huawei. Weeks later Trump said he’d accelerate the approval process for licenses, but none has been granted so far. The president as recently as this month green-lighted the approval of licenses in a meeting with advisors, according to people familiar with the matter, but an announcement has yet to be made. The Commerce Department, in a statement, said it has received more than 200 license requests about Huawei and its affiliates. “Given the complexity of the matter, the interagency process is ongoing to ensure we correctly identified which licenses were safe to approve,” according to the statement. “Moreover, the Temporary General License remains in effect and was recently renewed.” Micron Technology Inc. Chief Executive Sanjay Mehrotra said in September that the lack of decision on its license applications could result in a worsening decline in sales over the coming quarters. The company gave a [disappointing quarterly profit](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-26/micron-gives-disappointing-profit-forecast-sending-shares-lower) forecast last month, pointing in part to the Huawei restrictions. Broadcom Inc. in June also slashed its annual forecast, citing the U.S.-China trade war and disruption to its relationship with Huawei. One of the industry’s main arguments for allowing shipments of non-national security-sensitive items is that Huawei can buy some of those components from competitors around the world, including South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. “Unless the ban succeeds in ‘killing’ Huawei, the result will be reduced U.S. global market share in a number of technology areas, something that will hurt, not help U.S. tech competitiveness,” said Robert Atkinson, president of ITIF, a Washington-based think tank. Some firms have resumed shipments to Huawei even without a verdict on license requests. After a closer look at the rules since May, they determined they could continue supplying products based on an export control law. The rule doesn’t subject a product or service to the entity listing’s constraints if a company can prove that a piece of technology owes less than 25% of its origins to U.S.-based activities. Micron in June said it had resumed some memory chip shipments to Huawei. Intel Corp., the U.S.’s biggest chipmaker with plants in Oregon, New Mexico and Arizona, has as well. The company also has facilities in Ireland, Israel and China -- enabling it to argue that a chunk of the intellectual property in its chips isn’t created in the U.S. “We know many U.S. companies continue to ship to Huawei but do so using murky workarounds by way of other countries and third parties,” said Samm Sacks, a cybersecurity fellow at New America, a think tank. “It’s questionable whether the Huawei ban has helped U.S. national security so much as created a messy tangle of new problems.” James McGregor, chairman of consulting firm APCO Worldwide’s greater China region, said he’s focused on what unintended consequences may result from the White House’s actions. “I’m worried about tech companies decoupling from America over time by removing some of their operations from the U.S.,” McGregor said in an [interview](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-10-21/china-is-going-to-ride-it-out-for-a-while-says-apco-worldwide-s-mcgregor-video) with Bloomberg Television on Monday. “They have to look out for the long-term disruption of their business.” Atkinson cautioned not to over-interpret Huawei’s sales figures because the company has been stockpiling supplies for a while, in anticipation of the U.S. action. He said fourth-quarter sales will be a more accurate indicator of the export ban’s effect, or whether the company has largely circumvented it. Huawei has said it expects U.S. export restrictions to reduce annual revenue at its consumer devices business by about \$10 billion, in part because Google can no longer supply Android updates and apps from Gmail to Maps for the Chinese company’s newest handsets. Trump has indicated on various occasions that he’d be willing to consider removing the ban on Huawei for better terms in a trade agreement, drawing sharp criticism from China hawks on Capitol Hill. With the U.S. reaching a “phase one” deal with China earlier this month, the big question now is whether Trump will consider removing Huawei from the entity list or ease restrictions. When announcing the accord on Oct. 11, the administration said the issue wouldn’t be part of this initial pact but that it could be a part of phase two. Leonard and King write for Bloomberg. More to Read
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