Boeing-Airbus Trade Dispute Is a Pointless Relic

Boeing-Airbus Trade Dispute Is a Pointless Relic

The long-running trade dispute between Boeing Co. and Airbus SE has been a source of political grandstanding for years, but with the U.S.'s aggression reaching new levels of hypocrisy, the time may finally be right for a settlement. Support our journalism. Subscribe today.arrow-rightThe U.S. Trade Representative's office announced late Wednesday that it was leaving tariffs on $7.5 billion of imports because the European Union had not yet taken enough action to comply with a World Trade Organization ruling on illegal subsidies for Airbus. The U.S. is taking certain products from Greece and the U.K. off the list of items subject to the duties and adding an equal amount of goods from France and Germany, apparently to focus the pressure for a deal on those two countries. But the U.S. refrained from making