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Insight: Friday 6 March 2020: The Boeing-Embraer JV is now a trade war hostage

News The proposed joint venture between Boeing and Embraer has been approved by regulators around the world, but not the EU.  The European Union has yet to approve the deal and its regulators have now twice requested additional data from Boeing and Embraer, delaying a...

A deeper look at the WTO impact – Airbus vs Boeing

We decided to take a deeper look at what is at stake as the WTO case starts to play out. October 18 is when the US starts to impose its tariffs.  The EU appears to be in no rush - the US played its card.  The EU can respond when it is ready with equally or more...

Daily Insight: Tuesday 9 April 2019: Trade Wars to Impact Commercial Aviation

News The Trump Administration is proposing $11 billion in new tariffs on the European Union resulting from a World Trade Organization ruling that Airbus failed to cure illegal subsidies for the A380 and A350.  Those tariffs are outlined in a document here. The WTO...

Daily Insight: Thursday 28 March 2019: WTO Rules against US and Boeing

News The World Trade Organization released findings today the the United States has ignored a request to halt state tax breaks for Boeing in the State of Washington. This is the latest finding in a battle between the EU and US that has been on-going since 2004 over...

WTO news

[UPDATE - WTO document, EU comment] If you were to read each one of these on it's own you'd get a very limited view....

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