The White House Reportedly Plans To Delay Huawei Ban

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has just required the United States Congress to temporarily delay the ban on Huawei and allow its tech companies to continue the business with the Chinese tech giant in the upcoming time.

Being afraid that Huawei can spy for the Chinese government and steal intellectual property via its tech products, the US government has applied many various strategies to prevent the expansion of this company. And the recent ban is one among those.

As per Huawei, the company has denied many times that the Chinese government, intelligence services, and military forces are controlling it. Besides, it submitted a lawsuit to protest the monopoly of the United States government when the nation issued a series of the restrictions in its defense policy bill.

According to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a broad ban was given concerning that federal money is used to buy Huawei products as a solution to tackle the possible national security issues.

Therefore, the US government banned its tech companies to purchase devices manufactured by Huawei. The ban begins to take into effect in 2019.

However, the White House stated that it would take its government two years to comply with the law that just allows third-party contractors and suppliers to continue their business with the Chinese company in the limited conditions.

According to the White House OMB’s spokesman Jacob Wood,

At the beginning of this week, Russ Vought, the Acting Director of OMB wrote a letter to ask VP Mike Pence and congressional leaders to delay the ban on Huawei. The Wall Street was the first one to report the letter.

As said by Vought

He also added that the number of foreign contractors who could provide equipment for the US government would reduce dramatically.

He believed that the US government should just restrict its tech companies to purchase Huawei equipment after the next four years, instead of two years.

However, the request from the White House OMB wouldn’t affect or stop Commerce Department from adding the Chinese tech company into its “Entity List” – a blacklist which bans Huawei from purchasing equipment and parts made by the US companies without the consent of the US government.

The executive order signed by President Trump in May 2019 also forbids US firms from buying and leveraging telecommunications equipment from companies which can show any risk to the national security.