Choices, markets and prices will undoubtedly be affected by this.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-updates-covered-list-include-foreign-made-consumer-routers
"New devices ..., such as foreign-made consumer-grade routers, are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the U.S."
Edit: additional context https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/russias-military-hacks-thousands-of-consumer-routers-to-steal-credentials/
Yeah, I just read the PDF of that first public notice. It effectively says, "No new CPE routers/APs will be certified for sale in the US starting now." Oh, unless the US Department of Defense or US Department of Homeland Security says it's ok...
I imagine there will be some creative language arising from this. "WiFi enabled switch" is what most devices are. Deliver a device without a firmware and it's not a router.
Add openwrt after delivery 
Sounds like a plan
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Spoiler: made/ manufactured in China
Indeed, but quite frankly - and all irony aside.
There are currently no -especially not consumer- routers made in the US, none. Even the business- and enterprise routers largely aren't.
Manufacturing, even for the well-known US vendors (and yes, that includes Cisco), happens in the PRC or Vietnam, design and firmware development to a large extent as well. Even if this would suddenly become law and strictly enforced, it would take 5+ (more like 10) years to build up the necessary vertically structured manufacturing lines (and billions of dollars). The expertise no longer exists in the US, the necessary components are coming from China/ Vietnam/ Malaysia, supply chains and industrial process depend on those and can't be replicated 'quickly' (and without real legal/ economic force).
Something like this means two things:
Is the idea behind it -itself- stupid - no, it isn't. But the hubris of being able just decree it, tomorrow, to revert 40 years of established supply chains in a heartbeat, is beyond stupid. Yes, US companies might still provide the letter heads for a lot of technology, but the manufacturing and with that the process technology, the vertical- and horizontal integration is gone since -at the very least- the 1990s. In the last quarter of a century much/ most of the design processes has been outsourced as well, even if you technically might possess ownership of many patents in the area, that doesn't magically hand you back the actual knowledge to build these devices, nor where to source components (in the required numbers and qualities). No amount of money can change that 'quickly', only handwaving away and ignoring the requirements for a selected few.
Yeah, I remember colleagues saying the same when my government accepted Yarovaya law mandating implants on every ISP. Everybody, as one, used to say "it will not work, we don't have equipment" and so on. In 5 years was implemented. And honestly speaking the whole idea of Sovereign Internet Law (you may hate it as much as you like) served its purpose in 2022 when mass DDOS attacks started and some even tried to revoke certificates linked with Russia or blocked Russians IPs.
Praise Allah for email... but few remember how to use it these days. Not kidding, just yesterday I had this kind of conversation: "How do I send you pictures without Whatsapp and Telegram? Do you have Instagram?" 
I really don't want to go even deeper into global politics and involve more countries (there are quite a few of them, including G7 countries), but.
The idea is the same whether you like it or not. If government wants it will get it
Those may be effectively blocked.
Sure (Hampson-Linde cycle, synthetic fuels from coal, wood-burning boilers on cars, …, the list is endless), if they're willing to pay the price for it - it doesn't come for free, nor happens in an instance, at the blink of an eye. As the Linde cycle shows, international supply chains have been established for over a century (really at least 3 millennia), neither can you replace them quickly, nor can you somehow re-industrialize a technology sector after >35 years within a few years.
I'm not at all denying that it's possible, with sufficient brute force and isolation, in an environment totally forgetting about free market economy, but that it takes real investments and kind of glacial time periods (far exceeding that of a single term of office and parliament). Keep in mind that trying (ignoring patents, embargoes, existing international contracts, etc.), whatever would be needed to speed up this process, doesn't exactly improve your standing - and your competitive position on the world market either (you can obviously ignore that as well, which comes at a cost lasting for generations as well).
/enough politics for me
You're to pay the price not "them". Them will get benefits from insider trade on markets.
Free market? When was the last time you've heard from World Trade Organization?
I don't remember China asking permission for copycatting literally EVERYTHING.
Countries have strategic interests which last longer than presidential terms or parliaments.
FCC ruling? I bet Donald's sponsors already received letter "Claim your spot (very few spots remaining!), receive secret briefings on National Security and new investment opportunities". This is how it works... in America too. Routers is just another investment opportunity for them.
Consumer
Router
Has radios
All three have to be met and this only applies to new hardware.
This is also so broad and so stupid, it will likely get struck down by courts quickly i.e. the FCC can't just wake up and ban all new consumer routers overnight.
FCC's ruling doesn't come from nowhere. Protectionism comes from that guy on very top. Overrule his decision and all will be back to normal. Yep, it did work well with the tariffs. Couldn't be more Pyrrhic victory than that. Now he is even more unhinged than before. But at least The Law has prevailed...
That's the concept behind regulator agencies. They can and they regularly exercise that right.
Honestly, all I can find there explicitly is "Router", where do you see a restriction on consumer radios and devices with radios?
They define “router” here: https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/NSD-Routers0326.pdf
Definitions:
Routers: For the purpose of this determination, the term “Routers” is defined by National
Institute of Science and Technology’s Internal Report 8425A to include consumer-grade
networking devices that are primarily intended for residential use and can be installed by the
customer. Routers forward data packets, most commonly Internet Protocol (IP) packets, between
networked systems.
OK, that arguably might mean consumer routers (depending on how restrictive "to include" is interpreted, it might mean only consumer routers or all routers, including consumer-grade ones), but "having radio(s)" seems not to be a requirement, no?
primarily intended for residential use
to me would implicitly include wireless capabilities, since in a “typical” residential installation 50+% of devices will be wirelessly connected, and many households wont be using additional APs besides their main router.
Not arguing that wireless routers will not be covered, just that "having a radio" does not seem to a strict requirement here, so both wired and wireless routers are covered. The way I understood @cookiemonster was that his interpretation was only wireless consumer routers were covered (that is will be added to the "covered list").
BTW - the FCC has power to certify intentional (e.g., purposely built with radio hardware) and unintentional (i.e., bad circuit design) radiators. So technically, an electronic device doesn't need radios to be regulated by the FCC.
