EU tones the rhetoric down a notch against Huawei and ZTE

Huawei and ZTE have been under the microscope by EU regulators, but not for the same reasons they have been all-but-blacklisted in the United States.



The European Trade Commission has been spending the past couple years preparing an anti-dumping case against the two equipment makers. The EU believes that Huawei and ZTE have been pushing gear with ultra-low price schemes through back-end government subsidies in China.



For a while, it looked as though the EU was going to assess a series of fines, or tariffs on equipment imports to Europe. However, such action might have been countered ...