Boeing 737 delivered to China in sign of thaw

A new Boeing 737 Max landed back in China yesterday, flight tracking data showed, a sign the US planemaker was resuming deliveries to Chinese customers as Beijing and Washington ease their tariff war.

- LISA BARRINGTON

Boeing, which halted deliveries of new planes to China in April as the world’s two largest economies ramped up tariffs on each other, said at the end of May deliveries would resume in June after the tariffs were temporarily scaled back for 90 days.

The plane, painted in the livery of Xiamen Airlines, landed at Boeing's Zhoushan completion centre near China's commercial hub of Shanghai, after leaving Seattle on Saturday, and landing to refuel in Hawaii and Guam as it crossed the Pacific.