Boeing plans to resume its business with China in June, months after China had ordered its domestic airlines to stop taking deliveries of the planemaker's jets.

Speaking during a May 29 press conference, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said that China "has now indicated they're going to take deliveries" from the company for the first time since April, CNBC reports. On April 15, China ordered a halt to all Boeing deliveries to the country's airlines, and ordered Chinese companies to stop buying airplane components from the U.S. At the time, the planemaker had been scheduled to ship 10 737 Max planes to Chinese airlines.

Ortberg further shared that Boeing hopes to soon increase production of its 737 Max to 42 planes per month, with a goal to produce 47 per month by the end of the year. That said, the company will still need approval from the Federal Aviation Administration, which currently caps Boeing's 737 Max production at 38 planes a month. The monthly cap was first implemented in response to the blowout of a door plug aboard a 737 Max in January 2024, as well as subsequent investigations that revealed a pervasive culture within Boeing of lax safety standards, where speed was prioritized over quality. 

On May 23, Boeing also reached a tentative agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to avoid criminal charges for a pair of fatal 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019 respectively. As part of that settlement, the planemaker will pay more than $1.1 billion, and commit to strengthening its quality and safety processes.