FCC to Vote on Proposal to Ban Chinese Labs From Testing US Electronics

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – The Federal Communications ?Commission ?said on Wednesday it will ?vote this month on a proposal to bar all Chinese ?labs from testing electronic devices such as smartphones, cameras and computers for use in the U.S., ?widening a previous action targeting ?Beijing. The FCC last year banned testing of U.S. electronics by labs owned or controlled ?by the ?Chinese government, which led to 23 labs being barred. But the ?substantial majority of China-based test labs are still testing U.S. electronics, the agency said. The FCC says about 75% of all electronics are tested…