The Chinese telecoms giant Huawei announced on Friday a turnover with a third party over a year for the first three quarters, under the effect of American sanctions.The group achieved a turnover of 455.8 billion yuan (71.3 billion euros) between January and September), he said in a statement.

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A year earlier over this period, Huawei had sold 671.3 billion yuan of goods and services for 671.3 billion.This is a 32.1% drop in turnover over one year.Its beneficiary margin increased by 10.2%, or a performance greater than that of the same period of 2020 (8%).The general public activities and in particular the smartphones branch have been "considerably affected" by the economic situation, conceded the group in office of the group, Guo Ping.The activities intended for professionals, such as 5G equipment whose group is a world leader, have for their part "maintained".

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American sanctions

The world's leading supplier of network and telecoms equipment, Huawei embarked in 2003 on the cell phone niche, using Android.It has been one of the three main manufacturers of smartphones in the world for a time, with Korean Samsung and the American Apple.And he briefly occupied the number one place, stimulated by Chinese demand and sales on emerging markets.But the American sanctions, which notably cut the company of the global supply chains into components, plunged its smartphones branch into uncertainty."We will not give up our smartphone activity," Guo Ping recently assured his employees.

Huawei has been at the center of Sino-American rivalry for a few years, against the backdrop of trade and technological war between the two world's first powers.Huawei had found himself in the crosshairs of the ex-administration Trump, who accused him, without however bringing evidence, of potential espionage for the benefit of Beijing.In 2019, Washington thus placed the group on a black list to prevent it from acquiring American technologies, essential for its products.

The Biden administration has maintained these restrictions.At the start of the year, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei called the new US government to "an opening policy" after the Trump era.Based in Shenzhen in southern China, Huawei has some 197,000 employees and is present in more than 170 countries.

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Faced with the pressures of Washington, the founder of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, called on his employees at the start of the year to accelerate the group's diversification.Thus, "the United States will have very little grip on our future development," he said.In full technological rivalry with China, Washington had also arrested in 2018 in Canada, Huawei's financial director Meng Wanzhou, on suspicions of fraud.The arrest of the girl's daughter of the group had marked the start of a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Ottawa and the China detention of two Canadians in retaliation.After almost three years of procedure, Meng Wanzhou was able to find freedom at the end of September and return to China.