据外媒报道，这周，《PC Magazine》的编辑打算将一部华为P30手机从英国办公室寄到美国办公室，然而令人惊讶的是，这部手机在寄出几天后意外被退回。而被退回的原因则是–美国政府跟华为公司之间的问题。
据悉，这部手机本来是要从伦敦寄往印第安纳波利斯–先是用的英国的Parcelforce然后转用该公司美国合作伙伴联邦快递(FedEx)，遗憾的是，它因为所谓的法律问题而无法送达。至于具体是什么法律快递方并未披露。
而联邦快递的做法让《PC Magazine》的工作人员们感到困惑，因为当他们联系美国另一家快递公司–UPS之后得到的答复是很乐意接受这一单生意。另外，《PC Magazine》的工作人员还跟华为进行了核实，后者表示这完全是对美国订单的一个误解。
虽然在过去几个月内，美国政府针对华为采取的一系列限制措施让这家公司被美国通信运营商悄悄列入黑名单、被多家美国科技公司停止合作关系，但这一切的一切并没有明确禁止英国人将购买的手机寄往美国。但就像企业执法时经常发生的那样，联邦快递似乎在利用公司政策尽可能地避开这个问题。
The trade war between the US and China took a weird twist this morning, when PCMag’s UK writer was told he couldn’t send a Huawei P30 phone to our New York office because of a “US government issue” with Huawei and the Chinese government.
We’re trying to refresh our review of Huawei’s flagship P30 Pro, a spectacular camera phone currently on sale through Amazon in the US for $908.88. As we had one at our office in London, our UK reporter, Adam Smith, popped it in a Parcelforce bag to sail over the seas to New York.
This is totally ridiculous. Our UK writer tried to send us his @HuaweiMobile P30 unit so I could check something – not a new phone, our existing phone, already held by our company, just being sent between offices – and THIS happened @FedEx pic.twitter.com/sOaebiqfN6
— Sascha Segan (@saschasegan) June 21, 2019
Smith had to fill out a form listing the model number of the phone, which he did honestly.
According to tracking information provided by Parcelforce and FedEx, the phone left London, flew to Indianapolis, spent about five hours in Indianapolis and was promptly returned to London the same day. Smith now has the phone in his hand in London.
When Is a Ban Not a Ban?
“As advised on the information provided, due to the issues the USA government is having with Huawei they don’t accept any items with this brand,” a Parcelforce customer service representative named “Pam” told Smith over Twitter direct message.
The FedExHelp Twitter account followed up: “Adam, on May 16, 2019, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and 68 of its global affiliates were included on the ‘Entity List’ which sets out a list of certain entities that US companies are restricted from doing business with. My apologies for the inconvenience this has caused you.”
The account followed up, confusingly, “Adam, it is my understanding that to ensure our compliance, at this time we are not accepting any shipments to any of the listed Huawei entities.”
But neither FedEx nor Parcelforce, which is part of the UK’s Royal Mail, were doing business with Huawei here. (Neither was Ziff Davis at the moment, as we’d had this phone since mid-April.) Nothing was being shipped to or from any Huawei office.
Huawei spokeswoman Teri Daley replied on Twitter that this is “a complete misinterpretation of the [executive order/entity list,]” the US government decisions which are causing trade trouble for Huawei right now.
This is a complete misinterpretation of the EO/EL.
— Teri Daley (@TeriDaley) June 21, 2019
We’ve contacted FedEx’s main media relations team, but they haven’t been able to come up with any further explanation. It looks like someone at FedEx is interpreting the current government action against Huawei as banning all Huawei products from entering the country at all.
Send Your Huaweis by UPS
UPS does not seem to have the same problem. “There is not a general ban on shipping Huawei devices between United Kingdom and United States locations,” a company spokesman told us. UPS only prohibits shipping products to “69 selected Huawei locations,” all outside the US, which are listed in the May 21 issue of the Federal Register.
The UPS US Twitter account further confirmed, “I did see the article about FedEx refusing these shipments but I reviewed our information and policies and this is not the case for us. There is nothing