"paying a fine of $892m"
s/fee/bribe/g *
The US Department of Commerce has scrapped trade restrictions that left Chinese tech monster ZTE unable to import components from America. The DoC said in a Wednesday entry to its Federal Register that it would be taking the network hardware vendor off its Entity List and would end the export controls that have been in place …
so no you can import our components but we'll take your finished products
the sanctions prohibited US companies from both buying or selling to ZTE, but the US commerce dept granted ZTE a series of temporary reprieves with the last one expiring at the end of feb 2017.