Canada, China, Mexico, Japan and EU urge Trump not to impose new airplane tariffs

Open this photo in gallery: Trump has already imposed tariffs of 10 per cent on nearly all airplane and parts imports.Dan Catchpole/Reuters Five nations and the European Union, as well as airlines and aerospace firms worldwide, urged the Trump administration not to impose new national security tariffs on imported commercial planes and parts, documents released on Tuesday showed. Airlines and planemakers have been lobbying President Donald Trump to restore the tariff-free regime under the 1979 Civil Aircraft Agreement that has yielded an annual trade surplus of US$75 billion for the U.S. industry. The documents made public by the U.S. Commerce…