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The Trump administration announced additional tariffs on some products from the EU as part of a long-running dispute over subsidies to aircraft makers Airbus SE and Boeing Co.
The EU instituted duties on some $4 billion in trade from the U.S. after gaining approval from the World Trade Organization. A year earlier, the U.S. had imposed tariffs also authorized by the WTO on about $7.5 billion in imports from the EU and U.K. including French wine and Scotch whisky.
The U.S. Trade Representative’s office on Wednesday said it was amending some of its tariffs because the EU used a time period that affected substantially more products than would have been covered otherwise and that the EU needs to take some measure to compensate for this unfairness.