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http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/207876.asp



EADS: Boeing hypocritical on subsidies, Iran

Boeing is being hypocritical in calling for the Pentagon to penalize EADS
North America's Air Force aerial refueling
tanker<http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/category.asp?category=2382>bid
based on
subsidies <http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/category.asp?category=2581>to
EADS subsidiary Airbus and in raising fears about EADS seeking to do
business in Iran, Airbus Americas and EADS North America said Wednesday.

Boeing and its congressional allies want to penalize EADS' bid based on a
recent World Trade Organization ruling that European governments improperly
subsidized Airbus programs, including the A330, which is the basis for EADS'
KC-45 tanker <http://www.kc45now.com/>.

"Boeing is demanding that EADS be penalized in the tanker competition for
any support that Airbus has received; but it ignores the full meaning of the
WTO's initial findings and the parallel WTO case against Boeing," Airbus
Americas Chairman Allan McArtor wrote in an introduction to a
report<http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/library/Boeing_Subsidies_Report_2010-5-26.pdf>,
"Don't Let Boeing Close the Door on Competition," which Airbus Americas
commissioned from the Hogan Lovells law firm.

(Here's an earlier
story<http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/198465.asp>about a
Boeing-funded report on Airbus subsidies.)

The Airbus report "restores balance (and hard facts) to this debate," and
"shows that Boeing has also received government support – certainly no less
than Airbus," McArtor said.

Specifically, the report says, the European Union documented approximately
$16.6 billion in government research and development subsidies to Boeing
between the late 1980s and 2006, compared with just $3.7 in alleged R&D
funding to Airbus. The report says th EU found approximately $4.9 billion in
state and local tax breaks to Boeing (not counting newer South Carolina tax
breaks for Boeing's second 787 assembly line), compared with just $1.6
billion claimed to have gone to Airbus.

And Boeing got about $1.5 billion from the Japanese government and nearly
$600 million from Italy toward its 787 Dreamliner, helping move jobs
overseas, the report says.

Boeing and its supporters have relied on the WTO's finding that the Airbus
subsidies violated trade rules. The Airbus report says Boeing continued to
take tax-related export subsidies after they were found to violate trade
rules under General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and then the WTO.

It also notes that the WTO process is ongoing in the EU subsidy case and a
European counterclaim about the aid to Boeing is pending.

As for Iran, a Boeing executive told
reporters<http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2513729720100525?type=marketsNews>Tuesday
that EADS has courted U.S. adversaries such as Iran, and that should
figure into the tanker competition.
Responding<http://www.kc45now.com/news-real-tanker-news/05-26-2010.asp>on
its tanker website Wednesday, EADS North America said:


Let us be clear. EADS North America and its subsidiaries are not involved in
any trade with Iran. The allegations against the company by Boeing are
false. EADS scrupulously abides by the laws and regulations that govern the
sale of our products – which include U.S. export control laws and the
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Boeing is spreading what it knows is misinformation, to distract attention
from their lack of a tanker.

It is this that prompted a Pentagon rebuke, via the principal spokesman for
Defense Secretary Robert Gates: "We would not have welcomed EADS North
America's participation in this important competition unless they were a
company in good standing with the Department of Defense."

Insofar as this issue has been brought into focus exclusively by Boeing for
their own self-serving reasons, it would seem important to understand why
Boeing has itself been penalized $2.4 billion by the U.S. government in this
decade alone for a litany of ethical and legal violations.

However, unlike Boeing, we do not presume to instruct the Department of
Defense on who should be allowed to compete for this important and sensitive
contract. We will continue to talk about the one thing this competition is
supposed to be about – tankers – as we have done from the beginning. When
our competitors have the courage to compete on the merits of their offering,
they are welcome to join us in the discussion.


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