Earl Comstock, Commerce Dept Official Involved With Huawei Policy, Is Resigning

Earl Comstock, a senior Commerce Department official who helped lead the Trump administration's efforts to impose export restrictions on China's Huawei is resigning effective March 6, apparently. Comstock, who has served for three years as director of Policy and Strategic Planning at the department, often clashed with other administration officials on a range of issues. 

Comstock was a driving force behind an effort to put further restrictions on Huawei. Among these were possible rules changes aimed at curtailing foreign shipments of products with U..technology to the No. 2 smartphone vendor amid frustration that the company’s placement on a US trade blacklist in May failed to cut off supplies.