How FCC Covered List Blitz Is Sidelining Commerce Dept.

By Peter Jeydel ( August 21, 2026, 3:06 PM EDT) -- Since the start of the second Trump administration, the Federal Communications Commission has been on a tear, taking unprecedented action by adding a wide array of foreign-produced technologies to its Covered List, essentially cutting them off from the U.S. market absent specific approvals or exemptions. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services, or OICTS, has not imposed any new restrictions, despite years of work in many of the same areas....

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