Asus won’t say how it escaped the US router ban

<figure> <img alt="Asus&#039;s arachnid router, upside down to show its antennas as legs." data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Photo by The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4023838/vs09-02_1250cxs.0.png?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">This spring, the United States <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/899906/fcc-router-ban-march-2026-explainer">banned all future foreign-made consumer routers</a> - effectively <em>all</em> future routers - unless their makers could 1) convince the US government that they weren't a national security threat, and 2) submit "a detailed, time-bound plan to establish or expand manufacturing in the United States." </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces-conditional-approvals-certain-routers-and-robots">As of September 9th,</a> Asus now has an exemption from the ban, just in time to bring <a href="https://press.asus.com/news/press-releases/rog-rapture-gt-bn98-wifi-8-router-canada-availability/">its first early Wi-Fi 8 routers</a> here. But Asus has not publicly announced any plan to bring manufacturing to the US. It would not even confirm to <em>The Verge</em> whether it had submitted a US manufacturing plan.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Initially, Asus spokesperson JJ Guerre …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/1002504/asus-escape-us-router-ban-us-manufacturing">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>