| BRUSSELS, April 17 (Xinhua) -- The European Commission published on Wednesday for public consultation a list of U.S. goods worth 20 billion U.S. dollars that it might target for additional tariffs, as counter measures against what Brussels says are American subsidies to Boeing.
There has been a decade-long fight in the World Trade Organization between Brussels and Washington over subsidies to Airbus and Boeing, the world's two leading large aircraft makers. On March 28, the WTO's Appellate Body made a ruling regarding the European Union's complaint that the U.S. illegally subsidized Boeing. Washington called the ruling at the time a "major win" for the United States, saying the ruling rejected "28 of 29 EU claims" and rejected "arguments by the EU that the U.S. federal and state programs gave more than 10 billion U.S. dollars in subsidies to Boeing large civil aircraft. But the European Commission said "EU scores final victory in the WTO Boeing dispute", saying it vindicates "the EU's long held position that the United States has taken no steps to comply with WTO rules on support to Boeing." The European Commission added at the time that "the ruling concludes definitively that the U.S. has continued to subsidise the company illegally despite previous rulings condemning this behaviour. This has caused significant harm to its European competitor Airbus." | 
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