The United States is relaunching its “carousel” of tariff countermeasures in the Airbus dispute, proposing new products for public consultation on Friday 26 June that could be subject to tariff sanctions. They are profiting from their advantage over the European Union, which is waiting for its turn to apply its own tariffs in the dispute over the aircraft manufacturer Boeing.
Under Section 301 of the US trade legislation, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has initiated a...