US authorises ‘several’ firms to sell to China’s Huawei amid sanctions

US officials said Wednesday they have agreed to grant licences to “several” firms to provide components to Chinese tech giant Huawei, which faces sanctions imposed over national security concerns.

A Commerce Department spokesman said the agency had granted “narrow licences to authorise limited and specific activities which do not pose a significant risk to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.”

The administration earlier this week said it had extended for another 90 days the full implementation of the sanctions as part of an effort to make a transition easier for Huawei’s US partners.