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Delta Skirts Trump Tariffs by Sending Airbus Jets on World Tour
Delta Air Lines Inc. is sidestepping millions of dollars in U.S. tariffs on European jetliners by initially routing them far outside the country to such places as Amsterdam, Tokyo and El Salvador. The U.S. carrier has taken delivery of seven European-built Airbus SE planes since President Donald Trump’s levies took effect in October 2019. Rather than flying them home as it had in the past, Delta has based the aircraft overseas. The decision, coupled with the definition of new planes in the… (www.msn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Guess other carriers (thinking Jet Blue) could do this as well; wonder if any carrier would set up a subsidiary and then buy plan from the subsidiary as a "USED" aircraft. May save some fuel costs. Reading this part of article --- The Delta strategy rests on language that classifies planes as used once they’ve flown for any reason other than testing and delivery. --- and wonder if Airbus might just do this to save the airlines the costs.... Guess Boeing could then do the same.
Volvo and other carmakers have used this rule (no tariffs on used vehicles) for years. You buy the car at your local dealer and Volvo gives you round trip airfare to Sweden, where you pick up your car, drive it around for a week (or more), and then drop it at the port to be shipped home. Heck, they even put you up in a hotel the first night. The car price is generally less expensive than if you took one off the lot.
uhm, no, that's not the same. Bmw did as well. It's an option to take, nothing to do w taxes.
Uhm, yes, it is the same. The reason they offer it is to avoid the import duties on new cars. It comes in as a used car. There would be no benefit to Volvo to give you all that stuff if they still had to pay the import duty.
nope. Done it myself. They still are charged import duties. It's billed to the person buying the car.
that delta had to find a creative (sneaky, but admirable) sidestep to an idiotic ruling from both sides of the atlantic, says to me at least that enough is enough- fix the stupidity together and lets get back to mutual commerce. Delta can and probably will establish crew bases and aircraft basing in europe to evade these tariffs, and god bless them for that.