The United States suspended some sales to China from critical American technologies, including those related to reaction engines for the Chinese state aerospace manufacturer, the New York Times reported.
Cabac is developing its own commercial airplanes to compete with the dominant manufacturers Airbus and Boeing, but China does not yet have adequate own engines and continues to depend on imports.
Citing two people familiar with the matter, The New York Times states that the measure responds to China’s recent restriction to exports of essential minerals to the United States.
The newspaper states that Washington suspended some licenses that allowed US companies to sell products and technology to Comac to develop their C919 plane, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The US trade department said in a statement that he was reviewing exports of strategic importance to China. “In some cases, the Commerce Department has suspended existing export licenses or has imposed additional license requirements while the review is pending,” he said.
Among the affected sectors are aviation teams, three people familiar with the matter said.
A spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington said: “China firmly opposes that the United States extracts the concept of national security, abuse export controls and blocks and represses Maliciously to China.”
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The C919 Single Corridor plane of ACat is manufactured in China, but many of its components come from abroad, including its LEAP-1C engine manufactured by a joint company between GE Aerospace and the French Safran.
The C919, designed to compete with the best -selling narrow fuselage models of Airbus and Boeing, went into service in China in 2023 after obtaining the national security certification in 2022.
Eighteen C919 are currently in service, says the Aviation Intelligence Supplier Ch-Aviation, and only fly within Continental China and Hong Kong.
GE first obtained a license to sell the LEAP engines from C919 to Comac in 2014. At the beginning of 2020, the United States weighed whether to denied the last gender license for the engine, but the first government of President Donald Trump granted it.
“I want China to buy our reaction engines, the best in the world,” Trump said in February of that year. “I want it to be easy to do business with the United States, not difficult.”
With Reuters information
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