The Hill: McCain, Flake warn against 'politically-motivated penalties' for Canadian defense firm
Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake are pushing the International Trade Commission (ITC) to “deliberate thoughtfully” before potentially issuing a crippling tariff on commercial jets from Canadian defense firm Bombardier.
“U.S. trade laws should be dutifully enforced,” the Republican senators wrote in a Sept. 28 letter to commission Chairwoman Rhonda Schmidtlein.
“In doing so, we urge the ITC to avoid levying unnecessary or politically-motivated penalties that could have negative impacts on aerospace employees, U.S. air carriers, and airline consumers.”
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WNU Editor: Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake are wrong in labeling Bombardier as a defense firm. Bombardier Inc. is a multinational aerospace and transportation company based in Montreal, Quebec that is focused on planes and trains/subways ....it sold off its military division 4 years ago (see link here). The U.S. tariffs against Bombardier are in response to the Canadian and Quebec financial government support of the company .... which I have outlined more than once in this blog is massive.
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