How the FCC’s Secure Networks Act Is Intensifying Trade Compliance for U.S. Businesses
“Where the Covered List once was limited to telecommunications and surveillance products sold by a handful of vendors, it has now been expanded to cover connected devices in seemingly unrelated industries [drones/UAVs, power inverters, robotic devices, and routers]—and to capture products manufactured by any foreign vendor within those industries unless the manufacturer obtains an exception,” Lindsay Wardlaw, trade compliance lawyer and the founder of Wardlaw Trade Law, said. . . . “If you are somebody who relies on these products, I think you have to start thinking about whether you have a stable supply for now, and whether you have replacement parts stocked up in case they become unimportable in the future,” Wardlaw said.