Commerce Continuing Presumption of Denial Policy for Exports to Huawei

The Commerce Department will continue its presumption of denial policy for license applications for exports to Huawei, a Commerce spokesperson said July 3, adding that the China tech company remains on Commerce’s Entity List. Commerce will review export license applications for “their national security impacts” and plans to review licenses “under the highest national security scrutiny,” the spokesperson said.

At the G-20 Summit in Japan, President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would be loosening restrictions on exports to Huawei and would allow U.S. companies to “sell their equipment” as long as “there’s no great national emergency problem with it.” Larry Kudlow, the U.S. National Economic Council director, said June 30 that the U.S. would be granting license applications for products that China can easily get elsewhere. But there is still uncertainty about which specific products will be granted export licenses and when the changes will start taking effect (see 1907010050). “The Department intends to notify companies of decisions on export license applications once the review is complete,” the Commerce spokesperson said.