Chinese tech company Huawei plans to lay off hundreds of employees in the United States as it struggles with a blacklist imposed by the Trump administration over national security concerns, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

The layoffs are expected to hit Huawei's U.S. development subsidiary Futurewei, according to the Journal. Futurewei employs 850 people in research labs throughout the U.S., including Texas, California and Washington state. Overall, Huawei has about 1,500 employs in the U.S. who mainly sell equipment to rural wireless carriers.



Although the exact number of layoffs was unclear, a person familiar with the matter told the Journal that hundreds of people were expected to lose their jobs.

Huawei could not be immediately reached for comment.