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Jim: There is no general ban on the sale of Huawei smartphones in the US. The ban is on infrastructure equipment. Although Huawei was second in worldwide smartphone sales, in the US it's sales were almost non existent. The problem was that there was a ban on the use of Google Android apps. The following is from a good article on the subject:

" The US export ban mainly affects Huawei's access to smartphone software—the ban blocks the company from accessing Google's Android ecosystem including the Play Store and its millions of apps, Google Play Services, and killer Google apps like Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome, YouTube, the Google Assistant, and more. The ban also means Huawei can't carry US-made apps in its app store, like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, Netflix, Uber, Lyft, Amazon, Twitter, and a ton of other apps."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/huawei-reportedly-expecting-a-20-drop-in-phone-sales-thanks-to-export-ban/