The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it has rejected a petition from China's ZTE Corp, which asked the agency to reconsider its decision to designate the company as a threat to US national security for communications networks.
For those who do not know, at the beginning of June this year FCC has officially designated Chinese companies Huawei Technologies and ZTE as a national security threat. At the same time, companies were prohibited from using a state fund of $ 8,3 billion for the supply of equipment.
Huawei also sent a similar request to the FCC, in which the agency said it is extending the deadline for responding to Huawei's petition until December 11 "to fully and adequately review the lengthy report."
Before the FCC declared these two Chinese giants a security threat, in May 2019, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment from companies that pose a threat to national security, and added Huawei to the Entity List, which is essentially a trade blacklist.
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The FCC confirmation indicates that the agency is determined to keep both of these Chinese companies away from the country's telecom market, where small rural carriers still rely on their cheap networking equipment.
While both Huawei and ZTE deny the allegations against them, the United States has made it increasingly difficult for Chinese companies to operate in the US due to the US-China trade war.
