- Volume 11 (2012), Issue 3
- Vol. 11 (2012), No. 3
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- Pages 585 - 599
- pp. 585 - 599
Subsidies in Civil Aircraft Manufacturing: The World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Boeing-Airbus Dispute
I. Introduction The two interrelated WTO subsidy disputes1 between the US aircraft manufacturer Boeing and its European competitor Airbus – DS3162 for the USA’s complaint against the European Communities3 and DS3534 for the EU’s counter-complaint against the USA – have dragged on for more than half a decade now. The WTO panel circulated its final report in the US case – which found the European Communities in part in breach of the WTO’s subsidy r