Aircraft
Brazil Files Formal Arguments to WTO over C Series Subsidies
The program now known as the Airbus A220 benefitted from $4 billion in improper government support, according to Brazilian trade officials.

The Brazilian government on Friday filed its first written submission of arguments to the World Trade Organization in Geneva over the legality of certain financial support provided by the Canadian and Quebec governments to Bombardier. The WTO’s dispute-settlement panel, established in September 2017 after Brazil and Canada failed to come to terms during formal consultations launched in February of that year, now must examine Brazil’s detailed charges that 19 alleged subsidies provided by Canada and Quebec for Bombardier’s C Series program contravened WTO rules. Airbus took control of the C Series program this past June and subsequently renamed it the A220.