On Thursday 13 October, the EU appealed against the findings of the WTO panel assessing EU compliance with an earlier ruling in the EU-US dispute over support to the European aircraft manufacturer, Airbus (DS 316) published on 22 September 2016 (see EUROPE 11631).
In the findings, the WTO panel ruled that the EU had not complied with its previous verdict because it continued to pay subsidies to Airbus in the form of loans that led to lost sales for US aircraft manufacturer Boeing and...