US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OPENS INVESTIGATION INTO SEAGATE FOR HUAWEI SANCTIONS BREACH

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• As per the reports, this investigation will be revolving around controller chips inside the drives

• The US Department of Commerce had previously imposed tougher sanctions on Chinese smartphone maker in an attempt to prevent its attempts to circumvent US...

U.S. NOTIFIES HUAWEI SUPPLIERS ABOUT REVOCATION OF THEIR LICENSES

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• The US federal government has notified several suppliers of Chinese tech company Huawei Technologies Co. about revocation of their licenses to work with Chinese company

• The US Commerce Department has indicated about its intention of denying a significa...

U.S. ANNOUNCES NEW TRADE ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS AGAINST CHINESE SHIPBUILDERS

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• Along with the Chinese semiconductor industry, all listed companies in shipbuilding industry are part of the 77 companies added to the ‘Entity List' that curbs exports to them

• The new list also expands export restrictions to China State Shipb...

U.S. IMPOSES STRICT RESTRICTIONS ON CHINA’S CHIPMAKER SMIC

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• The Trump administration on Friday imposed strict restrictions on China’s top chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC)

• SMIC along with few other Chinese companies would be added to a Entity List that will ensure that...

ANOTHER U.S. JUDGE BLOCKS COMMERCE DEPARTMENT FROM IMPOSING RESTRICTIONS ON TikTok

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• A second US judge on Monday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Commerce Depart from imposing restrictions on ByteDance-owned TikTok

• Talking about this decision given by judge Nichols, a TikTok spokesman said the company was pleased that...

U.S. ECONOMY REBOUNDS BY RECORD 33.1% IN Q3

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• As per the US Commerce Department report, this overall surge in the gross domestic product (GDP), the nation’s total output of good and services remained unchanged as per the its estimate

• This jump of 33.1 percent was the largest quarterly gain r...

U.S. COMMERCE DEPARTMENT IMPOSES ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES ON ALUMINUM SHEET IMPORTS

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• This move will allow the Trump administration to collect extra tariffs from these countries, which is likely to be refunded next year if a commission gives clean chit to the countries stating they have not unfairly dumped aluminium products

• Secretary o...

FACIAL RECOGNITION SYSTEMS FAILING BY 20% TO 50% TO RECOGNISE FACES CLAD IN MASKS

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•     The National Institute of Standards and Technology working towards understanding failure to face recognition

•     Errors differ in between 20% TO 50%

With the pandemic masking face masks a must, in ...

THE FIGHT GETS UGLIER AS 33 CHINESE COMPANIES BLACKLISTED BY THE U.S.

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• The U.S. Commerce Department have blacklisted all these Chinese companies over alleged links to military

• The U.S. President Donald Trump has been constantly accusing China of making and intentionally spreading the dreadful coronavirus

The U.S...