Lawfare
Seagate Technology's operational headquarters in Fremont, California (Coolcaesar, Wikimedia)
In 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) adopted new controls to target the Chinese government and Chinese entities such as Huawei. The new controls included the expansion of the Foreign Direct Product Rule (FDPR), which covers foreign-produced items that (a) are a direct product of certain U.S.-origin technology or software controlled for national security reasons or (b) are produced by plants, or major components of plants, that are a direct product of U.S.-origin technology. In May 2020, BIS Seagate Technology and the Case of the Missing Huawei FDPR Enforcement