White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow will host a meeting with semiconductor and software executives on Monday to discuss the US ban on sales to China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, two sources briefed on the meeting have said.

A senior US official has told the Commerce Department's enforcement staff this week that China's Huawei should still be treated as blacklisted, days after US President Donald Trump sowed confusion with a vow to ease a ban on sales to the firm.

The United States has raised the pressure on Western allies in a war of attrition over next-generation networks, saying countries that allow China's Huawei to build their telecoms infrastructure could be cut off from crucial intelligence data.

New Zealand denies that telecommunications giant Huawei was banned from a 5G network rollout because it is Chinese, saying the problem it faced was a technological one.