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| Subject: Boeing ridicules EU offer for aircraft subsidy talks Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:59 pm | |
| Boeing has ridiculed a European offer to negotiate an end to its aircraft subsidies trade war with the United States, citing the EU's failure to comply a WTO ruling against it.
Recent Airbus and European suggestions that differences could be ironed out in talks with no preconditions are "risible," Boeing spokesman Charlie Miller told journalists in a conference call.
"The whole case came about because the European Union would not negotiate with the United States" over claims that state subsidies to Airbus were illegal under World Trade Organization rules.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/boeing-ridicules-eu-offer-for-aircraft-subsidy-talks-20120228-1tzmg.html#ixzz1ne5eVPZ4
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