Guests exit a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft at the Farnborough Airshow, Hampshire, July 18, 2010. (Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images)
Boeing Co. benefited from $5.3 billion in prohibited state and federal government subsidies, a panel of World Trade Organization judges determined in a report issued Thursday.
But the total amount that will need to be remedied by the U.S. in the trade case is about half that: $2.7 billion, since the U.S. government has already stopped providing Chicago-based Boeing billions of dollars in export-related tax breaks judged to be illegal by the WTO, U.S. officials said. Get the full story »
