![]() The wings of the CSeries are made at a Bombardier factory in Northern Ireland, prompting Theresa May, the British prime minister, to join Mr. Noting that Boeing has received help from the United States, it called its competitor’s complaint “pure hypocrisy.”īoeing’s trade action has angered the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which immediately suspended plans to buy fighter jets from Boeing worth about 6 billion Canadian dollars ($4.8 billion). Although Boeing did not bid on Delta’s purchase, it undertook a trade action against Bombardier, arguing that loans and investments in the CSeries by the governments of Canada and Quebec would allow the company to sell the planes at artificially low prices. ![]() The CSeries received a significant endorsement last year, when Delta Air Lines ordered 75 of the planes, which are slightly smaller than the A320 or Boeing’s 737. But they also said that many airlines had shied away from the CSeries because of concerns about the future of the project, which has been troubled by cost overruns and delays, and the future of Bombardier itself. Tom Enders, the chief executive of Airbus, and Alain Bellemare, his counterpart at Bombardier, told reporters that the agreement was not related to the trade action brought by Boeing. The two companies said they would move swiftly to open a CSeries assembly line in Mobile, Ala., where Airbus already makes its A320 airliners, that would most likely allow planes made there to avoid the enormous import duties. The arrangement gives Bombardier a way to make an end-run around two preliminary trade rulings that, if finalized, would impose tariffs that would more than quadruple the cost of the airliner in the United States, its key market. ![]() Airbus will hold 50.1 percent of the venture but will not make any payment, future investment in the project or assume any debt related to the airliner, which has cost more than $5 billion to develop and put into production. In an unexpected announcement, Airbus and Bombardier, which is based in Montreal, formed a partnership on Monday to make and sell the CSeries airliner. OTTAWA - Bombardier turned to Airbus on Monday to save an airliner that has been surrounded by uncertainty even before it was hit with a potentially crippling trade action by Boeing in the United States. ![]()
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