https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-china-huawei-tech-exclusive/huawei-smic-suppliers-received-billions-worth-of-licenses-for-u-s-goods-documents-idUSKBN2HB2D7

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Suppliers to Chinese telecoms giant Huawei and China's top chipmaker SMIC got billions of dollars worth of licenses from November through April to sell them goods and technology despite their being on a U.S. trade blacklist, documents seen by Reuters showed on Thursday.