Donald Trump’s customs duties threaten Airbus as well as Boeing and their subcontractors-Liberation

It is a twin -engine of 296 seats, particularly silent, sold around 200 million dollars. The American airline Delta Airlines ordered the year denier 20 copies of this Airbus A350 for its long-haul flights. In Toulouse, the lawyers of aeronautical manufacturer will surely tear the hair. The price of this device should therefore mechanically go from $ 200 to $ 240 million (181 to 217 million euros) if the additional customs duties of 20 % are applied, which the seller or the buyer had provided. Hence complex renegotiations to come.

At first glance, one might think that Airbus has a lot to lose in this modification of customs tariffs. The reality is more nuanced. The European consortium has a mobile assembly plant in the State of Alabama. Its channels come out eight A320 every month, the Monocourloir and Middle Courier plane very popular with American companies because it is not very delicious in kerosene and with a long -range version which allows in particular to connect New York to Paris or Washington in London. These devices will therefore not take full force the additional 20 % of taxes announced Wednesday April 2.

On the other hand an Airbus, like a Boeing, requires for its construction of systems