{"id":21973,"date":"2020-02-15T00:09:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T08:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21973"},"modified":"2020-02-15T00:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T08:09:42","slug":"gop-senator-offers-bill-to-restrict-us-sales-to-huawei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21973","title":{"rendered":"GOP senator offers bill to restrict US sales to Huawei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Friday introduced legislation to limit a loophole allowing American tech companies to sell products to Huawei despite Department of Commerce restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The agency placed Huawei on the &#8220;entity list&#8221; in May, preventing U.S. firms from conducting business with the company unless they obtain a specific license, citing national security concerns with the Chinese telecommunications giant.<\/p>\n<p>Although Huawei has been granted multiple temporary licenses to delay that designation &#8212; most recently on Thursday for another 45 days &#8212; companies have already begun finding ways to continue selling equipment to Huawei without running afoul of Commerce Department penalties.<\/p>\n<p>One way to do that is through a loophole that allows companies to sell products made outside of the U.S. to Huawei without a license, as long as the products contain less than 25 percent U.S.-made content subject to export restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The bill introduced by Scott on Friday would lower that threshold to 10 percent when companies do business with Huawei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Friday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21974,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21973\/revisions\/21974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}