The administration of U.S. President Donald trump may require that the equipment of the new generation of 5G for internal use was developed and produced outside of China, said the print edition of the wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter.
According to sources, discussions about this are at an early and informal stage. While the informal dialogue between the American officials and technology companies to move the production from China was initiated in 2018 or before. It also specifies that Washington discussed with other Asian countries the idea to send them with investments for the production of products that are now made in China. But in the part of the countries lack skilled workers or suitable land for these purposes.
It is noted that us officials do not want the equipment for cell towers or routers and switches were manufactured in China. It is added that North America have the ability to allow manufacture in China light parts, such as voltage converters and protective covers.
Another source of the newspaper drew attention that North America have the opportunity to introduce a ban on below of necessary telecommunication software was developed in China, But have the option to allow there to produce public domain software with open source.
These proposals have the opportunity to make the largest organizations that sell equipment to U.S. wireless operators, the Finnish Nokia Corp. And Swedish Ericsson, to transfer basic operations from China for the service of the United States, which are the largest market - $ 250 billion per year for global telecommunication equipment industry. In this large American manufacturer of cellular equipment do not happen.
According to the envoy of the organization of Ericsson, its strategy is to manufacture products close to consumers. Thus, the Firm can flexibly shift production to businesses in the United States, China, Brazil, Estonia and India. It is also noted that Nokia and Ericsson have already suffered or is prepared to transfer production from China.
The U.S. Department of Commerce in mid-may made the Chinese company Huawei in the black list, which covers organizations a way to purchase components and technology of American manufacturers. Huawei is also placed in the list of entities prohibited from doing business with American businesses without the appropriate licenses. Google has already suspended cooperation with Huawei in the areas of transmission equipment, software and technical services except those that are publicly available under an open source license.
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