Titlebook: Airbus Industrie; Conflict and Coopera Steven McGuire Book 1997 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997 Abstrac

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The Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft,de the focus for the trade friction over Airbus — the GATT Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft. The Agreement sought to introduce a measure of discipline over government influence on trade in the civil aircraft sector. This process was initiated by the United States government, when President Carte

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,‘Phoney War’: The Launch of the A320,T accord and regarded it as a good, if not foolproof, agreement protecting US firms from unfair competition. However, the 1980s saw the trade dispute intensify, not subside. By 1982, it was clear that the GATT accord was not going to offer the protection that American firms had hoped. Gradually both

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,The Height of Acrimony, 1985–88,bus consortium had launched three aircraft programmes (A300, A310 and A320) in relatively quick succession and was now planning to undertake another. It was doing this without any clear indication that the existing programmes were making any money for the consortium. American anger at this developme

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Negotiating the 1992 Airbus Accord,ted States and the European Community modified long standing positions on the Airbus dispute to achieve agreement. The essential trade-off was the EC’s acceptance of limits on direct subsidy in exchange for the American acceptance of discipline on indirect subsidy. The 1992 agreement has not stopped

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Conclusion: Airbus Industrie and International Cooperation, Certainly there would seem to have been good reasons to do so. The US aerospace industry is one of that state’s most important economic sectors; not only is it a key defence sector, its positive balance of trade makes a significant contribution to the US balance of payments. For the European Commun

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The Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft,ressure from its domestic industry which was, by 1978, beginning to recognize the dangers of increasing international competition in aerospace. Airbus was not the only competitor on the minds of US executives. Several states, including Brazil, Canada and Japan, were developing formidable aerospace industries.