Huawei, SMIC Stats Not Complete: Commerce Department

The House Foreign Affairs Committee's release of export licensing information for Huawei and China chipmaker SMIC (see 2110220019) doesn't present an accurate picture, the Commerce Department said. The agency's Bureau of Industry and Security approved more than a combined $100 billion worth of export licenses for shipments to Huawei and SMIC from November 2020 through April. Some pending applications were in BIS' “intent to deny” process and weren't part of the figures. That those denials weren’t included “risks politicizing the licensing process, discouraging good faith industry actors from participating in the licensing process, misrepresenting the thoughtful, evidence-based national security determinations made by BIS and other national security agencies,” a Commerce spokesperson said Friday, “and even undercutting U.S. technology leadership.” Huawei and SMIC didn't comment Monday.