Huawei outsells smartphone rivals in China, tightens market grip amid US spat

China’s Huawei Technologies cemented its dominance of the domestic smartphone market in the second quarter, with shipments and market share rising, as Chinese customers backed the embattled firm amid its trade fight with the United States.

Huawei, which was put on a trade blacklist by the United States since mid-May and was virtually barred from doing business there even earlier, shipped 37.3 million smartphones in China in the three months ended June, up 31 per cent year-on-year, according to market research firm Canalys.

Its market share rose more than 10 percentage points to 38 per cent in the quarter, even as all other top vendors lost ground in the world’s biggest smartphone market, the Canalys data showed.