FCC votes to ban all Chinese labs from certifying electronics sold in the US due to national security concerns

Submission statement: FCC has voted to ban Chinese labs from certifying electronics sold in the USA, a move that would affect 75% of electronics sold in the USA. A lot of the facilities affected are Chinese subsidiaries of major Western testing firms. They had earlier banned state controlled labs from certifying, this extends it to all labs.

FCC certification testing runs between $400 and $1,300 at Chinese labs, compared with $3,000 to $4,000 at U.S. equivalents, also this is not taking into account the difference in supply and capacity of these facilities.

Unless US rapidly expands the number of labs, you can expect either the wait and turnaround times to go up by a lot for new electronics, or for prices to shoot up.

It’s honestly incredible how they manage to find every “prices go up” button and then press it.