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Trump Allowing Select US Companies to Supply Huawei Has Some in Congress
Fuming

Rob Garver

   WASHINGTON - National security hawks who normally side with U.S.
   President Donald Trump on foreign policy issues are up in arms over his
   announcement on Saturday that he would indefinitely delay the
   imposition of tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods and relax
   restrictions on U.S. firms doing business with Chinese
   telecommunications giant Huawei.

   In a news conference Saturday that followed a bilateral meeting with
   Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan,
   Trump said: "U.S. companies can sell their equipment to Huawei. We're
   talking about equipment where there's no great national security
   problem with it.

   'Entity List'

   This represents a sharp reversal by Trump, whose administration on May
   16 added the company to the "Entity List" kept by the federal Commerce
   Department. Inclusion on that list is viewed as a sort of death penalty
   for foreign firms, because it prevents U.S. companies from doing
   business with them without express permission from the Commerce
   Department.

   In an announcement at the time, the department's Bureau of Industry and
   Security said, "The U.S. Government has determined that there is
   reasonable cause to believe that Huawei has been involved in activities
   contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the
   United States."

   The company has been caught stealing trade secrets, evading U.S. bans
   on transferring technology to Iran, and is suspected -- though never
   proven -- to be an arm of the Chinese intelligence services.

   Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, an ally of the president, appeared on NBC's
   "Meet the Press" and told moderator Chuck Todd, "I'm very concerned
   about Huawei. I think they are a threat to our national security."

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