WTO To Rule On Claims Boeing Received Subsidies |
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March 30, 2011
A long-running transatlantic trade dispute over illegal state handouts for Airbus and Boeing comes to a head Thursday with the latest ruling from the World Trade Organization.
A long-running transatlantic trade dispute over illegal state handouts for Airbus and Boeing comes to a head Thursday with the latest ruling from the World Trade Organization.
The United States and European Union, both trading superpowers, have been fighting cases against each other in the WTO for more than six years over each other's subsidies for manufacturers of large passenger aircraft.
Thursday's document will contain the WTO's 1,000-page findings on European Union claims that U.S. planemaker Boeing won billions of dollars in unfair U.S. support.
