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Home  >  Boeing • Bombardier • Canada • Delta Air Lines • Law In Travel  >  Defiant Delta CEO: We Will NOT Pay “Nonsensical” Bombardier Tariff
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Defiant Delta CEO: We Will NOT Pay “Nonsensical” Bombardier Tariff

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 14, 2017October 14, 2017 5 Comments

Delta CEO Ed Bastian has come out swinging, saying Delta will take delivery of its new Bombardier C Series order while also promising it will never pay the 300% tariff levied by the U.S. Government.

I outlined the stakes of the battle here. In a nutshell, Boeing lodged a “dumping” complaint against Bombardier because Bombardier’s Canadian-made C Series aircraft are heavily subsidized and were also sold to Delta so cheap the order will likely not even recoup production costs. Bombardier contends that Boeing does not compete with the C 100 aircraft it sold to Delta, therefore Boeing was not hurt. Last month, the U.S. government sided with Boeing in a preliminary ruling, slapping a 300% tariff on all C Series aircraft imported to the USA.

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Speaking on third quarter earnings conference call this week. Bastian addressed the controversial issue–

We will not pay those tariffs…And that is very clear…We intend to take the aircraft. I can’t tell you how it’s going to eventually work out. There may be a delay in us taking the aircraft as we work through the issues with Bombardier, who is being a great partner in this. We think that the aircraft needs to come to market, we believe it will come to market, and we believe Delta will get it at the agreed contractual price. We’re not going to be forced to pay tariffs or do anything of the ilk.

Boeing competed very hard for the order, except they were competing with not their own product, but it was a Brazilian product, an Embraer product, that wasn’t even new. It was used. So as you look through this, and try to see how exactly a harm case is going to be developed, particularly to justify the type of tariffs that are being contemplated, to us it’s unrealistic. A bit nonsensical.

CONCLUSION

I’m usually hard on Delta, but I’m right behind CEO Ed Bastian here. Boeing will be unable to show any direct harm and therefore should not prevail in this. The 300% tariff is a political charade that will likely be quietly dismantled.

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5 Comments

  1. George Reply
    October 14, 2017 at 5:13 pm

    So when subsidies favors me in one way or another I’m all in favor of it. When it favors others and compete with me, it’s wrong, it takes american jobs and blah blah blah. I would say it is a bit hypocritical but it is actually a lot.

  2. G. A. Ward Reply
    October 14, 2017 at 7:53 pm

    Boeing is also a very heavily subsided company. We know that they reduce the price of their planes depending on the number of planes in that order. Hypocritical is probably the best word for this case and they are using President Trumps’ America First policy to their advantage. Boeing, Delta looked at all your aircraft models and none of them fit their requirements like the C Series does. Boeing should remember that Delta is one of their customers and has been a very loyal client flying many of their planes. Risky business Boeing, messing with your clients.

  3. Jim Loewen Reply
    October 14, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    It’s all a façade at best. Delta complains that UAE subsidizes their own national airlines which hurts Delta. Then when the Canadian govt subsidizes the C100 to Delta’s advantage they are not ok with it. Delta does not at all care about buying American or saving US jobs, it’s all about making money. But then aren’t all companies in business to make money so we should not expect anything less.

  4. Richard Reply
    October 14, 2017 at 11:55 pm

    Britain is also lobbying with all the influence we have left on the Canadian side because of a bunch of jobs in Northern Ireland making parts for the C-Series that are at risk if it gets no sales.

  5. James Reply
    October 15, 2017 at 12:29 pm

    Delta will set up a dummy company which will buy (take and pay) bombardier the agreed price and leased the plane back to delta. The money comes from a loan from “delta” and payment of lease is payment of loan. Set it up with bonds to avoid income tax.

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