The United States is considering a raft of new tariffs on British and European Union imports as a dispute over EU subsidies to aircraft manufacturer Airbus threatens to morph into a trans-Atlantic trade war. A notice detailing the goods in question was posted by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) this week.
The notice (pdf) is filed as the “Enforcement of U.S. WTO Rights in Large Civil Aircraft Dispute,” as the World Trade Organization found that the European Union had been supplying illegal subsidies to Airbus SE. The goods in question have an estimated 2018 import trade value of $3.1 billion.
