Epic Airbus-Boeing fight signals long U.S.-China trade spat ahead
By Bloomberg
05 October 2018 |
5:30 am
For the better part of two decades, the U.S. and EU have battled at the World Trade Organization over aircraft makers Boeing Co. and Airbus SE. Now as America and China engage in a volley of tariffs, the inability of the U.S. and EU to resolve their dispute offers a key lesson for the burgeoning trade war:.
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