Huawei tells suppliers to move production to China as US ban looms

Company calls on partners to relocate operations to avoid tech wall

Huawei's sprawling plant in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan. The company is the world's largest telecom equipment company and second-largest smartphone maker. © Kyodo

LAULY LI, CHENG TING-FANG and COCO LIU, Nikkei staff writers

January 30, 2019 01:32 JST

TAIPEI/HONG KONG -- Huawei Technologies is asking suppliers to move some production to China as it braces for possible restrictions on access to U.S. technology that could starve the Chinese group of components vital to its business.