Airbus has a factory in Alabama and uses a lot of American parts in its planes. Boeing buys tail parts from Italy and door parts from France. So the White House ended up imposing 10 percent tariffs on European airplanes, but 25 percent tariffs on wines, Italian olive oil, Greek yogurt ...
for people who want to import foreign goods, it tends to help those who are exporting American products. A case in point: The CEO at Airbus is worried that theweak dollar could kill his company, because American airlines can't afford to buy as many European-built airplanes as they used ...