Will TP-Link really make routers in the US? Here’s what it told us

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="A TP-Link Wi-Fi 8 router. | Image: TP-Link" data-portal-copyright="Image: TP-Link" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/tp-link-wifi-8.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> A TP-Link Wi-Fi 8 router. | Image: TP-Link </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">TP-Link, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer Wi-Fi routers, is in a precarious position in the US. The company just launched <a href="https://www.tp-link.com/us/press/news/22555/">its first Wi-Fi 8 routers</a>, but can't bring them here because of President Donald Trump's <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/899906/fcc-router-ban-march-2026-explainer">foreign router ban</a>. Even though competitors Netgear and Asus make their routers in Asia, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/1002504/asus-escape-us-router-ban-us-manufacturing">they've mysteriously obtained blanket waivers for all their new gear</a>; perhaps because of <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/881500/texas-tp-link-china-lawsuit-anzu-robotics">alleged ties to China</a>, TP-Link hasn't managed to get such a waiver yet.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">But TP-Link is willing to do something those companies weren't - to invest nearly $1 billion to make routers <em>in the United States</em>, creating "hundreds of high-paying re …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/1013807/tp-link-router-us-onshoring-manufacturing-assembly-interview">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>