What a mess this is going to be.
A great exception would be allowing blanked BYO firmware devices ready to become routers and then flashing them in the US. There are several vendors selling openwrt based routers and that is a 25 year old very stable project starting on the old wrt54g router.
I am very satisfied with my openwrt based router, which I reflashed to standard OpenWRT just to be sure, though wish I had a better CPU for VPN’ing all of my data through to my VPS. I probably should look at something like the openwrt-ready Banana Pi BPI R3 Router Board with case kit, two A53 CPUs onboard and good memory too, I cheaped out and got a little pocket size hotel router.
If you already use linux, if you browse this tech forum, I cant see a good reason, including price, for anyone here to not use an openwrt capable router.
There sitll could be sketchy chips on some imprtted stuff with evil hidden firmware but I am not sure that scales well.
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