HONG KONG—ZTE Corp., the Chinese telecommunications firm in the crossfire of a U.S.-China trade fight, has asked the U.S. government for a stay of its order banning American companies from selling to the firm.
The Shenzhen-based company said that it formally submitted the request for the reprieve to the Commerce Department and that it has complied with the department’s request for additional information in response to the ban. It disclosed the news in a filing Sunday with the Hong Kong stock exchange. A Commerce Department...