The Trump administration has ramped up its long-running trade dispute with the EU over aircraft subsidies, announcing it would increase tariffs on aircraft parts and beverages from France and Germany.
The move was announced by the Office of the US Trade Representative late on Wednesday and will apply from January 12 — shortly before Joe Biden is sworn in as US president.
The USTR said it would raise the levies on the grounds that the EU had improperly applied tariffs on $4bn worth of American products last month by calculating them based on trade volumes since the coronavirus pandemic erupted earlier this year. The EU measures were authorised by the World Trade Organization.
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