The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Friday new rules that prohibit communications and video surveillance equipment made by Chinese companies including Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision and Dahua from being authorized for import and use by U.S. buyers.
The equipment and vendors in question were already prohibited from being used or purchased with federal funds, as well as being on a list of risky equipment maintained by the FCC that is deemed to pose “an unacceptable risk to national security.” But the prohibitions had not yet extended to the FCC’s device certification of gear which is allowed to be imported and operate in the U.S.
