Economics

Trump Administration Raises Duties on EU Aircraft to 15%

  • USTR publishes duty list stemming from WTO dispute over Airbus
  • Duties on goods such as Scotch, cheese, French wine still hold

An employee works on a center fuselage section of an Airbus A320 passenger aircraft inside the new Airbus SE A320 family assembly line hangar in Hamburg.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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The U.S. said Friday it will increase the tariff rate imposed on aircraft imported from the European Union to 15% from 10% on March 18.