The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it will delist three Chinese telecommunications firms.
China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom Hong Kong have all been named in the move.
Shares in the telecoms giants will be suspended on the NYSE next week while proceedings to delist them have already begun.
The companies earn all of their revenue in China and have no significant presence in the US.
The three firms' shares are thinly traded in the US compared to their primary listings in Hong Kong. The state-owned companies dominate the telecoms industry in China.
Shares of China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom Hong Kong will be suspended from trading between 7 and 11 January, the NYSE has confirmed.
There are currently more than 200 Chinese companies listed on US stock markets with a total market capitalization of $2.2tn (£1.6tn). Companies including Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.Com also have listings in New York but have conducted secondary listings in Hong Kong in the past two years as the trade war between the US and China intensified.
This comes after last month, when the US House of Representatives passed a law to kick Chinese companies off US stock exchanges if they do not comply with its auditing rules, following President Donald Trump signing an order in November barring American investments in Chinese firms owned or controlled by the military.
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