DJI details efforts to avert the potential ‘$116 billion economic impact’ of US blacklisting its drones

Global drone leader DJI has come under increasingly intense pressure in the US, as successive federal and state measures banning its craft for official use have proliferated amid worsening relations with China – and accompanying security concerns. Though accusations by politicians that DJI UAVs leak data to Chinese authorities have never been substantiated – and flatly denied by the company – the blacklisting has reportedly undermined the firm’s former 70%-plus US market share down to what some estimates say is closer to half now. 

With the draft Countering CCP Drones Act seeking to effectively block operation of DJI drones by all US users now before the House of Representatives, DroneDJ spoke to DJI head of global policy Adam Welsh about the blacklisting drive, its effects on the company, and its threat to client use.

The US federal and state blacklisting of DJI drones has…