{"id":294902,"date":"2019-10-04T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T05:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=294902"},"modified":"2019-10-04T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T05:41:50","slug":"opinion-airbus-versus-boeing-at-the-wto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opinion-airbus-versus-boeing-at-the-wto\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Airbus versus Boeing at the WTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has scored a victory against the EU at the World Trade Organization (WTO). On Wednesday, it ruled that the US could impose tariffs on $7.5 billion worth of European goods in retaliation to illegal EU subsidies given to aircraft maker Airbus. American grumbles over state support in Europe for its premier plane maker go back decades. European policies, the US has long alleged, had given Airbus an unfair advantage over its Boeing in the global market.<\/p>\n<p>Rivalry between the two has been intense. While Airbus has had a setback in its failure to turn its A380 \u2018super jumbo\u2019 into the world\u2019s long-haul of choice, Boeing has recently has a blowout with its 737 Max planes. The Donald Trump administration in the US, however, is in the midst of a trade battle with the EU, and the ruling would be music to his ears. But if he does exercise the option to levy tariffs on EU imports, it would only worsen trans-Atlantic tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has scored a victory against the EU at the World Trade Organization (WTO). On Wednesday, it ruled that the US could impose tariffs on $7.5 billion worth of European goods in retaliation to illegal EU subsidies given to aircraft maker Airbus. American grumbles over state support in Europe for its premier plane maker go back decades. European policies, the US has long alleged, had given Airbus an unfair advantage over its Boeing in the global market. Rivalry between the two has been intense. While Airbus has had a setback in its failure to turn its A380 \u2018super jumbo\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}