The United States government is in the process of granting approval to some companies to allow them to sell American-made goods to Huawei as long as the sale doesn't pose a threat to national security or undermine their intellectual property rights.

United States Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross made the announcement at a press conference on Tuesday. The list of products affected by the decision has not been released. Huawei has not commented on the announcement.

The announcement follows the decision made by U.S. President Donald Trump that "U.S. companies can sell their equipment to Huawei" as long as "there's no great national emergency problem." Trump made the announcement at a press conference at the G20 summit in Japan last month after his meeting with China's President Xi Jinping.

The Trump administration put Huawei on a Commerce Department export control list for reasons of national security. This effectively banned companies in the United States from exporting goods to Huawei.

Huawei's business partners in the United States, such as Qualcomm, Intel, Broadcom, and Google, have been lobbying the administration to review the export controls, which had stopped them from trading with one of their major customers.

At Tuesday's press conference, Ross said that Huawei would remain on the export control list. He also said that the Commerce Department would soon announce the list of members of an "emerging technology technical advisory committee" that would review requests for export licenses.