Manish Namireddy

1 month ago | lexology.com | Geoffrey Lin |Katherine Wang |David McIntosh |Georgina Jones Suzuki |Manish Namireddy

Amid increasing economic tensions with the United States, China recently announced that it would ban Illumina, a U.S.-based company and the world’s leading producer of gene-sequencing machines, from importing its gene sequencers into the country.1 The Chinese government’s decision to do so is one of several retaliatory measures China has taken against American companies in response to the United States’ decision to impose additional tariffs on the country.