The United Kingdom will not be able to impose new tariffs on American products in the context of the dispute between the European Union and the United States over subsidies granted to Airbus and Boeing, due to its upcoming exit from the EU (Brexit), Washington said on Wednesday.
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The US government argues, in a press release, that it was the European Union that attacked the United States before the World Trade Organization (WTO). Consequently, by leaving the EU, London cannot avail itself of the right, recently granted to Brussels by the WTO, to impose tariffs on American products in the context of the Airbus-Boeing dispute.
