Ottawa in complete disagreement with the new tax against Bombardier

News 6 October, 2017
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    Asked By Chrystia Freeland

    QMI agency

    Friday, October 6, 2017 15:27

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    OTTAWA – Canada has strongly denounced, on Friday, the us tax liability of a tax anti-dumping 80% of the aircraft in the C Series of Bombardier.

    “We are extremely disappointed with the preliminary decision taken by the u.s. department of Commerce, said the federal minister of international Affairs asked by chrystia Freeland. We are completely in disagreement with the decision.”

    This new tax is in addition to a first imposition of compensatory fees by 220% by the United States at the end of September, following a complaint by the american company Boeing for unfair competition.

    “These anti-dumping […] target, unfairly, the sector is very innovative aerospace in Canada, as well as more than 200,000 people who work there,” added the minister Freeland, stating that the obstacles that Bombardier is facing is also threatening more than 20,000 american jobs.

    She accuses the Boeing company of manipulate the mechanisms of trade remedies in the United States in order to prevent Bombardier from having access to the u.s. market.