Non-US models are not banned in the US: they are used daily in every state of the US. Some misguided state governments temporarily banned employees from downloading the R1 models and variants released 16 months ago on state government computers. The article and your comment are misleading :-)
Assuming this is so, and continues to be the case: is this really still a basis for a 90 day period in releasing new models being somehow insane/catastrophic?