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I have a feeling this will soon enough lead to some protectionist measures and new sanctions based on some suddenly discovered anti-competitive behavior.

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They certainly did a wonderful hatchet job to Bombardier. Effectively forced them out of the market to the point they had to sell the entire line to Airbus as the A220.

I'm still crying about this. Bombardier could have become a third large airframe producer.

On the other hand, the Quebec government made the boneheaded decision to give incentives specifically to the C-Series. If they had given those incentives to the whole company, Boeing couldn't have complained.

There's Embraer of Brazil and Comac of China.

Yeah but those companies aren’t able to make larger airframes. Boeing and Airbus are the only two companies making the truly big planes. Bombardier legitimately wanted to enter that market if the C-Series worked well.

For those who want to read about this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSeries_dumping_petition_by_Bo...

They're going to have a real tough time doing that when the alternative is grounded planes. Boeing has put both themselves and the government between a rock and a hard place.

Airbus A320 and Airbus A320neo family final assembly for all North American airlines happens in Mobile, Alabama.

> I have a feeling this will soon enough lead to some protectionist measures and new sanctions based on some suddenly discovered anti-competitive behavior.

American competitiveness and freedom act.

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