US: Boeing seeks US anti-dumping probe against Bombardier Jet

Boeing Thursday asked the US Commerce Department to investigate alleged subsidies and unfair pricing for Canadian planemaker Bombardier's new CSeries airplane, adding to growing trade tensions between the US and Canada. The petition against Canada's new competitor to the Boeing 737 aircraft came just days after the Commerce Department imposed duties averaging 20% on imports of Canadian softwood lumber, saying that the product's origin from public land amounted to an unfair government subsidy. On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto that he intended to begin renegotiating the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, after White House officials said Trump had been considering an order to withdraw from the pact. Boeing said in its petition that Bombardier, determined to win a key order from Delta after losing a competition at United, had offered its planes to the airline at an "absurdly low" $19.6m each, well below what it described as the aircraft’s production cost of $33.2m. "Propelled by massive, supply creating and illegal government subsidies, Bombardier Inc has embarked on an aggressive campaign to dump its CSeries aircraft in the United States," Boeing said in its petition.<br/>