> Boeing successfully lobbied for an extravagant 300% import tariffs to be be applied
Doesn't this violate NAFTA?
Doesn't this violate NAFTA?
> On 10 January 2018, the Canadian government filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization against the US.
> On 26 January 2018, the four USITC commissioners unanimously determined that US industry is not threatened and no duty orders will be issued, overturning the imposed duties. The Commission public report was made available by February 2018. On March 22, Boeing declined to appeal the ruling. While the USITC had determined there was no threat, the ruling came too late for Bombardier, as the dumping petition by Boeing had already paved the way for Bombardier to relinquish a controlling interest in the CSeries to Airbus in October 2017.
This is just a repeat of the Avro Arrow story. US demanding free trade from everyone and then just bullying its weight around when someone comes along with a better deal than what they can manage.
And ... Putin has a significant aviation industry. For a while they were the only country able to launch humans into space. And as far as I know, they're flying MiGs in Ukraine.
But my comment was really intended to say that the "freedom" we are supposedly entitled to is actually a gift, with limits, and there are few better ways to discover those limits than to threaten a very large company.