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Suzhou Everbright Photonics Says Morgan Stanley FCC Memo Not Formal Rule

Suzhou Everbright Photonics said a Morgan Stanley research memo on a possible FCC Covered List restricting 3.2T optical modules is not a formal FCC rule, but oral information gathered from policy discussions and still subject to debate. The note, which said modules would need 65% of BOM value from US companies, triggered a sharp selloff in China’s A-share optical communications sector on October 8, with several stocks hitting the daily limit down.

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The episode shows how a single sell-side memo can move an entire A-share subsector even before any formal rule exists, with the 65% BOM localization threshold doing the damage rather than any enacted text. That matters for Chinese optical module makers and their supply chains, which now face headline risk from policy chatter that may never become binding. The open question is whether such a threshold ever appears in a formal FCC action, and how the gap between oral signals and actual rulemaking gets priced.

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