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Originally Posted by jfman
Under WTO preferred country rules can the USA apply such a tariff only to the EU? Surely if we traded on WTO terms with the USA they’d still apply to us, we’d just be outside the EU.
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Yeah, they can as an anti-dumping measure if there is a suspicion that products are being sold at under their real value. I guess in this case, the US are saying that Airbus products should cost more than they do and this is due to state aid.
The EU tried this against Chinese steel a while back and the UK vetoed it, allowing cheap steel in to the EU and undercutting our own steel industry.
Anti dumping tariffs can be disputed at the WTO but this can take years to be resolved..