Tag: import duties

Second U.S. Import Duty Blow For Bombardier

Reading Time: < 1 minute Following on from last week’s 219.63% duty levied by the U.S. government on Canadian plane manufacturer Bombardier’s CSeries aircraft for “countervailable subsidies”, the U.S Commerce department has added a duty of 79.82%. This latter figure is based on a predetermination of what has been referred to as the investigation into the ‘dumping’ of the CSeries […]

Russia Ponders Return Of Import Duties On Western-Built Airliners

Reading Time: 2 minutes Russia’s Ministry for industry and trade has proposed to cancel the zero import duty regime currently in effect for foreign-made commercial airliners, Kommersant daily reports. It covers the aircraft with seating capacity ranging from 50 to 300 passengers and MTOW between 20 and 90 tons. This measure is intended to protect Russian aircraft programs, Sukhoi […]