The administration of US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that it has extended the temporary license granted to Huawei for an additional 45 days, to allow American companies to find alternatives to the Chinese telecom giant, which the United States sees as a threat to its national security.
The Ministry of Commerce said in a statement that under the new extension, the validity of the temporary license became valid until the first of April, indicating that by that time it would study whether to extend it again or not.
In May 2019, the Trump administration blacklisted Huawei, accusing the group of working with Chinese authorities, in a decision that forced de facto US companies and US residents to find other suppliers of telecommunications equipment and software.
But the administration could not immediately enforce the ban on Huawei, so it granted the Chinese group a temporary license to work in the United States, which is extended in November for 90 days, so as not to isolate remote rural areas in the United States from the rest of the world, pending the organization itself to find alternatives to Huawei.
The Commerce Department statement came hours after the US Justice Department issued new charges against Huawei.
Brooklyn Federal Attorney General Richard Donohue earlier Thursday accused the Chinese group of violating trade secrets and circumventing the sanctions imposed on North Korea, adding to the charges leveled against it originally for violating the US sanctions that have been in effect since early 2019.
