REALTY WOES Property curbs to dampen earnings prospects p14 HOT DISH HELPING HAND Tech fund set up to help boost sector p16 ON MENU World Cup fans flames of crawfish craze BUSINESS p15 CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION Thursday, July 5, 2018 Tariffs Tech will not ZTE gets take fizz out of temporary fireworks reprieve By HONG XIAO in New York
[email protected] US Commerce Department grants firm Tariffs are not going to put a damper on one grand old US breathing space from July 2 to Aug 1 tradition. On the Fourth of July, By MA SI mercialization of fifth-genera- whether you gaze up at the
[email protected] tion mobile communication pyrotechnics over the East technology has already kicked River in New York, watch the ZTE Corp has been allowed off,” Xiang said. nationwide spectacles on TV to temporarily resume business Edison Lee, a telecom analyst or stage your own celebration A boy plays with sparklers as he waits for the Fourth of July fireworks display at Ault Park in Cincinnati, the United States. AP activities as the Chinese smart- at investment bank Jefferies, in the backyard, one thing is phone and telecom company said in a research note that the for sure — thanks for the thrill works hard to secure the lifting temporary reprieve was “a very of fireworks go to China. works and firecrackers in ing new duties. importing from countries man said. “As the regulations of a seven-year US supplier ban. positive indication that ZTE is Fireworks were originally May, just in time for this “Thankfully, the fireworks such as Italy, Mexico and [in the US] got tighter and The US Commerce Depart- on track to a full lifting of the invented in China in the ninth year’s Independence Day, industry has not been impact- China.