US media: China allows airlines to accept deliveries of Boeing aircraft again
US media outlets say that China has removed a ban that prevented Chinese airlines from receiving deliveries of jets from the US aviation giant Boeing. The report comes after the two countries agreed to temporarily reduce their tariffs.
In April, Boeing said a number of airlines in China had refused to accept deliveries of its planes, due to the impacts of the tit-for-tat tariffs. Beijing virtually confirmed the ban. It said the US tariffs had caused both Chinese airlines and Boeing to suffer greatly.
On Tuesday, Bloomberg and other US media outlets reported that officials in Beijing had started to tell domestic carriers and government agencies that they could start receiving deliveries of US-made aircraft again.
The move comes after the US and China agreed to temporarily cut additional tariffs on each other's products by 115 percentage points. This means China will lower the levies that it imposed on American imports, as a countermeasure, from 125 percent to 10 percent.
China has indicated that it will also take steps to suspend or lift other countermeasures. The decision to start accepting Boeing aircraft again is being seen as one of those steps.
But US media outlets say it is unclear if Chinese airlines will actually go ahead and accept deliveries of Boeing jets, as trade talks between the two nations are still being held.
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