Trump: US tech firms allowed to sell to Huawei once again

President Trump has agreed to allow US tech companies like Google and Qualcomm to start to once again sell to Chinese firm Huawei following the restart of trade talks between the two companies.

The comments made at a press conference at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan come after growing trade hostilities between China and the US.

Perhaps realising that American companies were feeling the damage just as much as Huawei, Trump admitted that American companies were also starting to be affected:

“We send and we sell to Huawei a tremendous amount of product that goes into the various things that they make, and I said that that's ok.”

The news will no doubt be welcomed by all those involved, however Trump has also said that a final decision on whether Huawei goes back on the so-called entity list is still to be decided.

The US president has said that specific discussions about Huawei would still be part of the trade negotiations but not till the end of the talks.

Huawei said at present there is no official statement on the announcement.

In the bigger picture the move means that Huawei phone users will now still get Google Android support beyond the previous August deadline and should mean that future phones will now get Android Q, Google’s latest version of its Android operating system.

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