USTR Modifies Products Subject to WTO-Authorized Duties

By [ Blake Harden ]
08/13/2020

This week, USTR issued a modification to the list of products subject to WTO-authorized additional duties in the United States’ successful WTO challenge to subsidies for large civil aircraft provided by the European Union, France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

USTR is removing from the tariff list certain products from Greece and the United Kingdom and adding an equivalent amount of trade from France and Germany. The amount of products subject to countermeasures will remain unchanged at $7.5 billion and the tariff rates will remain unchanged at 15% for aircraft and 25% for all other products.

The modifications announced today, which USTR described as “modest”, will take effect on Sept. 1, 2020.

For more information, please contact RILA Vice President of International Trade Blake Harden.