It was recently reported that TP-Link is trying to partner with the contract manufacturer Key Tronic in the US to avoid having its routers banned from being sold in the US market. I wonder if our regulators are even going to require TP-Link to quickly patch newly discovered firmware vulnerabilities or have a minimum amount of years for firmware security updates. Besides the housing of the routers, I can’t imagine the major components such as the SOC, PCB, RAM, flash storage, or wireless module being manufactured in the US; it’s curious what is really defined by regulators as “manufactured in the U.S”.