{"id":42290,"date":"2025-11-07T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/42290\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:25:11","slug":"china-to-lift-8-month-ban-on-imports-of-illuminas-gene-sequencers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/42290\/","title":{"rendered":"China to lift 8-month ban on imports of Illumina&#8217;s gene sequencers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Illumina-Campus.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Illumina-Campus.jpg\" alt=\"Illumina campus\" class=\"wp-image-61850\" style=\"width:810px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a>The Illumina Campus in San Diego. (File photo courtesy of the company)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illumina.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Illumina<\/a> said Wednesday the Chinese Ministry of Commerce will lift its ban on imports of the San Diego company\u2019s gene sequencers to customers in China.<\/p>\n<p>The ban, which has been in place since March 4 following President Trump\u2019s doubling of tariffs on China, is expected to be lifted on Nov. 10.<\/p>\n<p>Illumina will remain on China\u2019s \u201cunreliable entities list,\u201d however, with purchases subject to Chinese government approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased with the announcement from MOFCOM, which is a very positive step forward. Illumina will continue to engage with authorities and stakeholders as we work toward a long-term resolution,\u201d said Jacob Thaysen, CEO of Illumina. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank our customers for their trust and support, and our team in China and around the world for their dedication and resilience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The ban covered imports of Illumina\u2019s gene sequencing machines, but not supplies needed to run the machines used by existing customers.<\/p>\n<p>Illumina said it remains remains committed to serving customers in China, noting that it has operated in that market for two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The company is the world leader in gene sequencing, but faces growing competition from China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.genomics.cn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BGI Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Illumina Campus in San Diego. (File photo courtesy of the company) Illumina said Wednesday the Chinese Ministry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[28378,3573,28379,28380,74,76,75,3429],"class_list":["post-42290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-bgi-group","tag-china","tag-gene-sequencing","tag-illumina","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-tariffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}