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WTO Allows U.S. to Impose $7.5 billion of Duties in Airbus Row

The EU is calling for a negotiated solution and a new regime on aircraft subsidies.

By Cathy Buyck • Contributor - Europe

October 2, 2019

Trade tensions between the U.S. and the European Union reached the aerospace sector on Wednesday as the World Trade Organization (WTO) authorized Washington to impose tariffs worth $7.5 billion annually on imports of products from the UK, France, Germany, Spain—the so-called Airbus nations—and the wider EU. The approval marked the latest chapter in the long-running legal saga over subsidies to Airbus and prompted Brussels to warn it “would have no other option than to do the same” in the equally long-running dispute over Boeing subsidies. Both sides filed a complaint at the WTO on October 6, 2004, though the parallel cases have followed different timetables. The EU filed a second complaint over subsidies to Boeing in 2014.

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