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HTC is a Taiwanese company. Their R&D and manufacturing are all done in Asia. They import phones to the US, they don't export them from the US. ITAR has rather
by nknight 15y ago
HTC is a Taiwanese company. Their R&D and manufacturing are all done in Asia. They import phones to the US, they don't export them from the US. ITAR has rather limited relevance to them.
- tesseract 15y agoThere's a decent chance (although it is not necessarily the case) the GPS receiver chips have some US-originated IP in them.
- alephnil 15y agoThat would be irrelevant for export regulations though. A better reason for staying inside the export regulations, is that it would make it problematic to reexport it, so e.g. amazon would have to apply for export permit to sell it from the US and other countries that have signed the Wassenaar agreement, which is most western countries.