Xiaomi has reached an agreement with the U.S. government that will shelve the Trump administration’s decision to put Xiaomi on the “blacklist”.
On January 14 this year, former U.S. President Trump used the excuse of “endangering national security” and dragged 9 Chinese companies including Luokung Technology, Xiaomi, and COMAC into the so-called “military-related blacklist” of the U.S. Department of Defense. “. Since then, Xiaomi filed a lawsuit against the US government.
According to a document submitted to the U.S. court on Tuesday (May 11) local time, the U.S. Department of Defense has now agreed to finally order the revocation of this designation “it is appropriate.”
Xiaomi has not immediately responded to a request for comment.
In March of this year, the District Court of the District of Columbia in the United States sided with Xiaomi in the lawsuit and temporarily suspended the relevant ban. Rudolf Contreras, a District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, said at the time that the court concluded that the US move was “arbitrary and capricious” and deprived the company of its legitimate legal rights. At the same time, Contreras also added that as the lawsuit unfolds, Xiaomi is likely to win a complete revocation of the ban, and Americans can also reinvest in Xiaomi.
A spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said earlier that the US government has generalized the concept of national security, abused national power, and unscrupulously suppressed Chinese high-tech enterprises, which seriously violated the principles of market economy and fair competition. This approach not only harms the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies, but also harms the interests of companies in the United States and other countries. It will seriously interfere with the normal scientific and technological exchanges and trade exchanges between the two countries and the world, and cause damage to the global industrial chain and supply chain. The US should immediately stop its unreasonable suppression of Chinese companies, treat Chinese companies in a fair, just, and non-discriminatory manner, and do more to facilitate China-US scientific and technological exchanges and economic and trade cooperation.