Asus has received a US exemption from a ban on future foreign-made consumer routers, allowing it to sell new models, including early Wi-Fi 8 routers. The exemption matters because it covers all of Asus’s future routers through March 2028, though the company has not clarified whether it submitted a plan to manufacture in the United States.

The article says the US rules require companies to address national security concerns and provide a time-bound US manufacturing plan, but the FCC has not publicly explained Asus’s exemption or answered questions about the process. Asus and Netgear say they manufacture outside China, and both have promoted their exemptions as signs of trustworthiness; the article notes that the certification-style terms Asus uses appear only in its own statements, not government sources.