The EU-U.S. trade deal reinstates a decades-old tariff exemption for the aerospace sector, allowing for the free shipment of new aircraft, engines and spare parts. "This restores the longstanding, reciprocal principle of tariff-free trade for civil aircraft," said a spokesman for Airbus, which makes commercial jets at factories in France, Germany, China, Canada and in Mobile, Ala. "A stable and predictable trade environment is essential for our highly integrated global aerospace industry." The deal follows a similar carve-out in President Trump's trade deal with the U.K. and calls—including from senior Republicans—to return the industry to the state of play that existed under a 1979 World Trade Organization treaty that protected commercial aerospace from duties.

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