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Oh goodie, we can have free trade with the USA

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    Oh goodie, we can have free trade with the USA

    Oh goodie, we can have free trade with the USA

    Bombardier describes tariff ruling in Boeing row as 'absurd' - BBC News

    Aerospace firm Bombardier has described the US Department of Commerce's preliminary ruling against it in its row with Boeing as "absurd".
    An interim tariff of nearly 220% has been proposed on the import of Bombardier's C-Series jet to the US.
    The Canadian company said Boeing was seeking to use US trade laws "to stifle competition".
    The UK government and trade unions fear the ruling could put more than 4,000 jobs in Northern Ireland at risk.
    Boeing had complained its smaller rival got unfair state subsidies from the UK and Canada, helping it win a major order.
    Bombardier said in a statement that the ruling against it was "divorced from the reality about the financing of multibillion dollar aircraft programmes".
    The firm said it had created a "superior aircraft" that is more efficient and comfortable but Boeing was trying to prevent "US passengers from realising these benefits, irrespective of the harm that it would cause to the US aerospace industry and the cost to airlines and consumers".
    The case will now be considered by the US International Trade Commission for a final ruling in February.
    "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

    #2
    Trade war anyone?

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      #3
      Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
      Trade war anyone?
      We should start taxing tea.

      Oh, hang on...
      His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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        #4
        Originally posted by Paddy View Post
        The miracle of Brexit will sort all of this out, dont worry everybody the new dawn of prosperity is almost upon us
        Warning unicorn meat may give you hallucinations

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          #5
          After all it's not as if the Septic ***** don't have history of doing this for rather more than a century.

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            #6
            Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
            After all it's not as if the Septic ***** don't have history of doing this for rather more than a century.
            Wasn't Trumpy going to impose tariffs on foreign steel (as soon as he's stockpiled enough cheap steel for his next few developments) ?
            His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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              #7
              Originally posted by Mordac View Post
              Wasn't Trumpy going to impose tariffs on foreign steel (as soon as he's stockpiled enough cheap steel for his next few developments) ?
              They've been doing that since the 1870s.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Mordac View Post
                We should start taxing tea.

                Oh, hang on...
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JvHroG3u5E

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                  #9
                  220% may not be the end of it, there are further rulings to come.

                  Maybe the DUPe will use some of their £1.5bn to entice Dyson to build his cars in the UK. After all, NI has history in the automotive industry...
                  Harry Ferguson’s tractors (in England he worked with David Brown)
                  John Dunlop invented the pneumatic tyre in Belfast
                  And then there was DeLorean.
                  …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
                    And then there was DeLorean.
                    Maybe they could build the flux capacitor factory there.

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