GENEVA: A European Union trade lawyer fired withering put-downs at U.S. claims for damages due to subsidies for European planemaker Airbus in a recording of a dispute hearing made available by the World Trade Organization on Tuesday.
The latest comments, released as an audio recording on Tuesday, were made at a dispute hearing in February. Hearings are normally secret, but a few are made public. Denying such a level of sanctions would"cement in perpetuity" the damage done by the EU subsidies, which had caused the United States"economic pain" for at least two decades, he said.After 14 years of litigation it was long past time for the EU to argue about the damage it had done.U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted about the dispute on April 9, promising US$11 billion of tariffs.sentifi.
Substantial parts of the evidence required to support the U.S. case were"missing, incomplete, inconsistent, non-verifiable, and in fact, wholly unreliable", he added.
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