Europe is in the middle of the US and China, and also of the commercial war that both countries maintain with damages that affect global productivity, from the agri-food sector to the technology sector. Huawei, the telephony giant of the largest Asian power, sells smartphones and deploys networks in the Old Continent, although its inclusion on a blacklist by the Trump Administration threatens its businesses worldwide.

While the US Secretary of Commerce has announced that this veto for the company will relax "very soon", the Chinese company has announced that it has an annual impact of 12.8 billion euros in the European economy, in view of the 2018 data .

As Pete Collings, director of Oxford Economics, said of that total of 12,800 million , 2,500 million euros correspond to the direct figures relating to Huawei, 5,400 million to the indirect influence in the companies with which the company works and 4,900 million euros to the influence that Huawei has in the generalized economy of the European nations, either through the boost to their respective GDP or to the higher tax collection it allows.

Oxford Economics also estimates that the Shenzhen-based firm employs 169,700 employees in Europe (13,300 direct, 80,300 indirect and 76,100 caused), as was announced on the Huawei Innovation day, which is being held Monday in Paris and that is the annual meeting of the company for the continent.

Huawei would also have injected 5,600 million euros in the coffers of European countries in taxes for the year 2018. Directly, the company dedicates 1,800 million euros, 80% more than the amount that was insufflated in the collection continental in 2014, data that must add another 1.8 billion of the taxes of suppliers and collaborators, and another 2,000 million triggered in the European ecosystem.

"We are making a considerable contribution to the economy, helping Europe improve its productive capacity and ensuring that its companies and industries are not left behind by the pace at which the digital transformation is progressing," explained William Xu, director of the Council and president from the Strategic Research Institute of Huawei, in an international event attended by EL MUNDO.

Optimism in the Trump Administration

Huawei focuses on this occasion in Europe, although it does not lose sight of what happens in the US, a fundamental market for telephony but also the country of origin of some key companies for the Chinese company's business.

This Sunday, the US Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, said in an interview with Bloomberg that permits for US companies to sell components back to Huawei will be activated "very soon . "

The Government chaired by Donald Trump has received 206 requests from US companies to continue doing business with Huawei, which is the world's largest global telecommunications equipment company and the second largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world, above the American company Apple and just behind the South Korean Samsung.

"Frankly, it's more than we expected," said Ross about the flood of requests received from US companies, which, faced with the restrictions imposed since May, have encountered problems and not a few doubts when selling components to Huawei.

That is, the veto to the Chinese company by the US has ended up putting some North American companies in difficulty, such as Intel and Qualcomm, which make chips, and Google, on which the Android operating system depends on Huawei phones have worked to date.

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