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That’s assuming that all the planes manufactured in Alabama are not exported outside the USA. E.g. to airlines registered in Mexico, Canada, S America. I imagine that at least some are exported so moving manufacturing outside the USA would definitely hurt employment.

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IIUC the goal of the Alabama factory is to work around the existing tarifs on shipping planes to the US. Instead of shipping the planes, Airbus ships the parts, and assembles them in the US, thus avoiding the plane tarifs. So now there are tariffs on "plane parts".

Maybe they'll just stop doing this, close the factory, and ship whole planes from the EU again. Depends what the difference is in the plane and plane parts tariff, and whats more worth it.

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