EU Stops the Clock on Review of Boeing Deal With Embraer
- Regulators looking at Boeing investment in smaller planemaker
- EU concerned that deal could hurt competition in plane market
A US Airways Embraer E-175 airplane takes off from a runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.
Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
European regulators halted their in-depth antitrust probe into Boeing Co.’s plan to invest in Embraer SA, saying they hadn’t received sufficient information from the planemakers.
The European Commission has been investigating the venture, warning that the deal could remove Embraer as the third-largest global competitor to both Boeing and Airbus SE, which “may therefore result in higher prices and less choice.” The commission, one of the world’s toughest merger regulators, said Monday that it “stopped the clock” and a review can only be restarted once it gets the answers it needs.