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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 05:22 PM Sep 2012

U.S. Trade Office Bows To WTO Ruling On Boeing

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GENEVA (AP) -- The United States Trade Office says the U.S. government has responded to and complied with a World Trade Organization ruling that found the U.S. had provided illegal subsidies to Boeing Co.

The U.S. and the European Union have been at odds over subsidies to the world's top two plane makers — Boeing and Europe's Airbus. A WTO panel has also ruled that European governments provided $18 billion in subsidies to Airbus, though not all were deemed illegal.

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