Overview

• Major U.S. online retail sites removed several million listings for prohibited or unauthorized Chinese electronics, FCC Chair Brendan Carr said.
• The pulled products include home security cameras and smartwatches from Huawei, Hangzhou Hikvision, ZTE and Dahua Technology.
• Listings were taken down because the items appear on the FCC’s Covered List or lacked required FCC authorization, according to the agency.
• Retailers are instituting new compliance processes under FCC oversight to prevent future sales of barred devices, Carr said.
• The FCC set an Oct. 28 vote to block authorization of devices containing components from Covered List companies and to permit case-by-case prohibitions on previously authorized equipment, while continuing probes of nine firms and actions against seven Chinese-owned test labs.