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WASHINGTON -- A decades-long struggle between the world's two largest aircraft makers escalated into a new trade war between the United States and Europe, just as France-based Airbus stepped up plans to challenge Boeing for lucrative U.S. defense contracts.
U.S. trade officials filed a complaint Wednesday with the World Trade Organization, contesting what they say are unfair subsidies to Airbus by European governments.See the full content of this document
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Aircraft Trade War Erupts
The European Union quickly retaliated, filing its own complaint with the WTO challenging U.S. tax breaks for Boeing.
Europeans dismissed the U.S. complaint as election-year politi...See the full content of this document
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