China’s Huawei says it will challenge US blacklisting and vows to limit impact on its operations

World’s largest telecommunications company says the decision by Washington will significantly harm US companies and jobs

Analysts say barring Huawei is a US effort to shift European allies away from the Chinese company in the race to dominate 5G technology

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The US government claims Huawei’s equipment poses a security risk. Photo: AP

Published: 1:05am, 17 May 2019Updated: 1:30pm, 17 May 2019

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies said on Thursday that it would challenge the United States’ decision to add the company and 68 affiliates to an export blacklist and vowed to limit the impact on its operations.

The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) took the action against Huawei late on Wednesday, immediately after US President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring a national emergency that barred the use of telecoms equipment made by companies that are deemed a threat to national security.

A Commerce Department spokesman said late on Thursday that the export order against Huawei takes affect immediately, according to Reuters. Earlier, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, in an interview with Bloomberg Television and Radio, said the order would go into effect on Friday.

Huawei, a major purchaser of US technology that is critical to its position as a leading provider of 5G, or fifth generation, telecoms equipment, said the Trump administration’s actions were in no one’s interest.