AIRBUS-BOEING DEAL EASES USEU TENSIONS BUT CONFLICTS REMAIN
Jun 18, 2021
4 minutes
The deal the United States and the European Union reached this week to end their long-running rift over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus will suspend billions in punitive tariffs. It will ease trans-Atlantic tensions. And it will let the two sides focus on a common economic threat: China.
But the breakthrough still leaves some trade friction between the U.S. and the EU unresolved. Most prominently, President Biden kept in place import taxes that President Donald Trump imposed on European steel and aluminum, a move that infuriated some of America’s closet allies three years ago.
For now, the truce in the Boeing-Airbus dispute goes a long way toward repairing a huge commercial
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