United States of America: Executive Order on Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain

Announcement

15 May 2019

This order puts in place a process that may lead to the blacklisting of specific firms, but does not name any specific countries or companies. There is widespread speculation that the Chinese provider Huawei may be the principal target.

Source

Number of interventions

2 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

2 in force

Implementation date

22 Mar 2021

Revocation date:

No revocation date

FDI: Entry and ownership rule In force

Among the consequences of being named under this procedure would be a prohibition on the company's acquisition of any U.S. firm. On 19 January 2021, the U.S. Department of Commerce promulgated the int...

Implementation date

15 May 2019

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Import ban In force

On May 15, 2019, President Trump signed the “Executive Order on Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain.” This order puts in place a process that may lead to t...