Lawmakers Urge Commerce Department to Ban China-Linked Router Company

‘China is not our friend, and we should not bring CCP-controlled equipment into American homes,’ Sen. Cynthia Lummis said.

A hostess waits for visitors at the TP-Link stand at the IFA 2020 Special Edition consumer electronics and appliances trade fair on the fair's opening day in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 3, 2020. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

A bicameral group of 17 Republican lawmakers is urging Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to ban the sales of networking equipment from TP-Link, saying that the company has “deep ties” to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.), the lawmakers sent a letter, dated May 14, to Lutnick, calling TP-Link “a state-sponsored networking equipment company” that poses “a clear and present danger.”