Airlines
U.S. Hits Bombardier with New C Series Duties
Near 80 percent antidumping tariff brings total duties to almost 300 percent
Preliminary punitive tariffs imposed on the Bombardier C Series by the U.S. Commerce Department now total nearly 300 percent. (Photo: Bombardier)
Preliminary punitive tariffs imposed on the Bombardier C Series by the U.S. Commerce Department now total nearly 300 percent. (Photo: Bombardier)

The Department of Commerce has proposed a 79.82 antidumping tariff on sales of Bombardier C Series jets in the U.S., the agency announced Friday. The decision comes only nine days after the department announced it would impose countervailing measures amounting to 219.63 percent on the new narrowbodies. Together, the near 300 percent duty on each airplane would effectively disqualify them from sale in the U.S., removing the biggest market from Bombardier's available pool of potential customers. The rulings come ahead of planned delivery next spring of the first of 75 Bombardier CS100s to Delta Air Lines, the U.S. launch customer for the program.