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DJI escapes US drone ban — but may get banned automatically unless Trump steps in
DJI has one year to prove its innocence.
The text of the bill(PDF, see page 1084-1088) should theoretically prevent DJI from exploiting the loophole of whitelabeling its drones under other brand names or licensing its technology, too, as it seemed to be doing with the Anzu Robotics Raptor and Cogito Specta. Even without the NDAA, DJI was already facing increased US scrutiny, reporting that its products had begun to see surprise import restrictions(allegedly over the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act), and making a conscious decision to ship fewer of them into the United States as a result. It’s asking Congress to pick a “technically focused agency to assure the assessment is evidence-based,” and to give the company the opportunity to reply.
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