Bombardier Hit By Tariff In Boeing Row

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41397181

There an awful lot of jobs at risk, in an already economic blackspot. As Farage and Trump are Best Mates, have we now found a job for Farage at last ?

Couldn't we persuade him to hop over the Washington and have a word in Trumps shell-like ?

[-Talbot-]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/27/punitive-export-tariff-placed-on-planes-made-in-northern-ireland

[Islay]

Terrible news for us here in NI, one of if not the biggest employer in NI!

[mikey4444]

Islay....yes I agree....so much for the "Special Relationship"

[albaqwerty]

Aren't Bombardier a Canadian company?
Not that it makes much difference to those who may well be affected.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this has to do with CETA (?)

[cassa333]

The 220% tariff is because of the 'unfair' subsidies that bombardier gets from the government.

Labour (and everyone else) should think very carefully about level playing fields for selecting candidates. This is what happens when you level the floor.

Perhaps someone should have been looking at this sort of tariff when the Chinese started undercutting our coal industry.

[CrapAtCryptics]

As if Boeing need protection - they only made a £4.9 billion profit last year poor dears.

[albaqwerty]

not only coal, Cassa, steel too

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Islay....yes I agree....so much for the "Special Relationship" ///

What do you know about the 'Special Relationship' you take every opportunity to have a dig at the President of the United States of America?

But then you are not on your own, so is it any wonder that the 'Special Relationship' is slowly diminishing.

[mikey4444]

I am deadly serious about involving Farage. He is standing around like a spare one at a wedding, with noting to do. So I can't see why he shouldn't go and see his new mate, and see if he can help these NI workers out.

[murraymints]

don't think they are bessies any more !

[mikey4444]

Minty....but that might mean that Nigel now has no friends whatsoever, apart from a very few here on AB of course !

I suppose we could send Boris over but that might make things worse.

[gulliver1]

Thought Mikey meant the special relationship Mrs May had with the DUP party , you know what I mean ,just slip them another few million £ under the table.
{poor old money tree,]

[cassa333]

The drive for ever cheaper products, wether produce or items, means we import from the cheapest source.

Our own producers can't keep up so stop producing. We are then forced to import as the cost goes up and up.

I wonder if everything was subsidy free (most things would inevitably cost more) and imports had tariffs to level the ground, would we then get better quality? If the cost is relatively equal producers would look at quality rather than how much they can wrangle out of the consumer?

[douglas9401]

I've just been reading my Bumper Book of Economics and it clearly states that nothing can be accomplished by trying to join a beer guzzling frog-faced soak and a misogynist lunatic with a taste for fried food and an internet habit.

[jno]

Douglas, I'm not sure he does anything as complicated as the Internet, just tweets.

[douglas9401]

"Users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app."

Wikipedia.

[jno]

Yep, but Trump uses his mobile. Apparently it's the only app he's got on his iPhone. Sorry I can't do links at the moment but you can google it.

[Spicerack]

One thing for sure. Sad dick Khant go.
Lucky the jobs aren't in London.

[Gromit]

I am suspicious in reports like this that they do not tell us about the Canadian subsidy and why and how the company got it. Obviously if the Government give you a huge dollop of money, then you are able to undercut your American competitors. But that does not seem fair, and it is understandable that the US trade authorities want to level the playing field by putting on a punative levy.
Farage will have no luck trying to reverse Trump's 'Keeping American Jobs Act '.

[Old_Geezer]

Companies tend to have a go at rivals in order to benefit themselves. Hopefully it will be sorted in the US courts.