WTO must decide if US complied with Boeing aid ruling, Airbus says

The WTO must decide whether the US has fully complied with WTO rulings on illegal government aid to Boeing, and that process could take some time, a spokesman for Airbus said Wednesday. The US government on Wednesday told the WTO that it had fully complied with the WTO's rulings since Washington State had now repealed its tax breaks for Boeing, and there was "no valid basis" for the EU to retaliate against US goods. But Airbus spokesman Clay McConnell said the US notification was "a claim" that would have to be reviewed by the WTO. He said Airbus also looked forward to receiving more information about how the United States would remove other subsidies to Boeing that were identified in WTO rulings.<br/>