In August, President Trump signed an order banning US government and government contractors from using Huawei and ZTE equipment.
US President Donald Trump is planning to issue an executive order to ban US telecom companies from using equipment made by China’s Huawei Technologies and ZTE.
The president would issue the order declaring a national emergency as early as in January, Reuters reported. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act gives the president the authority to regulate commerce in times of a national emergency.
The move has long been on the anvil and would worsen the trade and economic stand-off between two of the world’s largest economies.
The US has long harboured the grouse that the telecom giants are tightly controlled by Chinese government and their equipment would be used as backdoor spying channels by Beijing.
