Since the US Department of Commerce issued a seven-year procurement ban in April this year, ZTE Corporation has ceased its main business. The company received the US Department of Commerce for illegally sending products to Iran and North Korea in violation of an agreement signed in 2017. The ban was issued.
On Tuesday, the US Department of Commerce spokesman James Rockas said: 'The two parties have not yet reached a final agreement.'
ZTE did not immediately comment on the matter.
According to sources, the preliminary agreement included the United States’ US$1 billion fine on the incident and ZTE’s 400 million U.S. dollars temporary protection against future violations. The content of this agreement was linked to Reuters’s report on Friday. The report basically coincided.
The source said that the U.S. Department of Commerce plans to revise the settlement reached last year and that it will also pay 361 million U.S. dollars to be paid by ZTE as part of the settlement. Thus, ZTE needs to pay a total of US$1.7 billion in fines to the United States.
According to sources, ZTE signed an agreement drafted by the United States last weekend, but it was not signed last year that the revised settlement was signed.
The agreement also includes that ZTE needs to be reviewed at any time to ensure that parts supplied by U.S. companies are used in the manner claimed by the company, publish the details of the use of U.S. parts in the company’s products on public websites, and adjust them within 30 days. Board of directors and senior management team.
25% to 30% of the parts of hardware products produced by ZTE are from US companies. These products include smart phones and equipment needed to build telecommunications networks.