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Boeing Backers On Hill: WTO Subsidy Finding Impacts Tanker Contest

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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford Boeing [BA] supporters in Congress argued last Friday that as the Pentagon prepares to release the solicitation for the Air Force tanker it cannot ignore the World Trade Organization's preliminary finding that some European government subsidies to rival Airbus were improper. Northrop Grumman [NOC] and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS) backers countered that the in-process trade dispute should not impact a Department of Defense (DoD) procurement matter. A WTO panel issued an interim report last Friday on…

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