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    EU complies with WTO Airbus rulings, wants US tariffs lifted

    npsBy nps29 July 2020 No Comments3 Mins Read
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    EU complies with WTO Airbus rulings, wants US tariffs lifted

    Airbus A350 – Image by Uwe Sobierta on Pixabay

    (BRUSSELS) – The governments of France and Spain agreed with Airbus Friday to modify the terms of a ‘repayable launch investment’ granted by them for development of the A350 aircraft to reflect market conditions.

    This means that the European Union and the Member States concerned – France, Spain and Germany, also known as the “Airbus Member States” – are in full compliance with the rulings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the Airbus case. This removes any grounds for the U.S. to maintain its countermeasures on EU exports and makes a strong case for a rapid settlement of the long-running dispute.

    “Unjustified tariffs on European products are not acceptable and, arising from the compliance in the Airbus case, we insist that the United States lifts these unjustified tariffs immediately,” said the EU’s Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan: “The EU has made specific proposals to reach a negotiated outcome to the long running transatlantic civil aircraft disputes and remains open to work with the U.S. to agree a fair and balanced outcome, as well as on future disciplines for subsidies in the aircraft sector.”

    The EU says it is strongly committed to a negotiated settlement of this long-running dispute, the longest in the history of the WTO. Especially under the current economic circumstances, the EU believes that it is in the mutual interest of the EU and the US to discontinue damaging tariffs that unnecessarily burden our industries and agricultural sectors.

    “In the absence of a settlement, the EU will be ready to fully avail itself of its own sanction rights,” said Mr Hogan: “The WTO will soon issue its arbitration decision in the parallel case of the EU against the United States on certain unlawful subsidies to Boeing, where the Appellate Body had found the US to be in breach of its WTO obligations.”

    If the United States opts to maintain its duties on $7.5 billion worth of European exports or decides to increase tariffs or apply them to new products, the European Union will act to exercise its own sanction rights, based on the relevant WTO authorisations, as soon as the level of countermeasures is established by the WTO in the Boeing case. The EU already undertook a public consultation in April 2019 on a list of products considered for countermeasures.

    History of the Airbus case

    History of the Boeing case

    List of potential products to be targeted by the EU retaliation as published for consultation

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