This week's media coverage of the World Trade Organization's decision to approve U.S. tariffs on European products in response to illegal subsidies of jetliners has followed a familiar pattern.
The dominant themes are that there are no winners in trade wars; that America and Europe both have legitimate complaints against how the other side's aerospace sector has operated; and that the tariffs the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) plans to impose later this month are part of a broader Trump Administration strategy to help American companies at the expense of foreign competitors.
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