Seoul: Boeing Chinese customers are rejecting the delivery of new aircraft built for them due to rates, confirmed the United States glider, since a third Boeing plane began returning to the US. UU. UU. Thursday.
“Due to tariffs, many of our clients in China have indicated that they will not receive,” said CEO Kelly Ortberg during a first quarter of profit call on Wednesday.
Ortberg said that China was the only country in which Boeing faced this problem and that the planner would redirect the supply of new airplanes to other customers anxious for previous deliveries due to the global shortage of new commercial airplanes.
Before the global commercial offensive of President Donald Trump, commercial airplanes were negotiated free of taxes worldwide under a 1979 civil aviation agreement.
A Chinese airline that receives a Boeing plane could now be affected by the retaliation tariffs imposed by Beijing on the importation of US goods. A new 737 Max has a market value of around $ 55 million, as I was going, an aviation consultancy.
Two 737 Max 8s, which had been transported to China in March for the delivery to Xiamen Airlines, returned to the Boeing Production Center in Seattle last week.
A third 737 Max 8 left Boeing’s Zhoushan completion near Shanghai for the territory of Guam in the United States on Thursday, the data of the airnav radar and FlightRadar24 flight trackers showed.
The plane was initially built for the national carrier Air China, according to the monitoring database of the aviation flight group. Air China did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
He had been transported from Seattle on April 5, in the period between Trump announced tariffs on China and Beijing, beginning to enforce their own increased tariffs on US goods.
Guam is one of the stops that such flights make on the 5,000 -mile trip (8,000 km) through the Pacific between Seattle and Zhoushan, where the airplanes are transported by Boeing for the final work and the delivery to a Chinese carrier.
The Chinese government has not commented why the planes were returned.
Order-book
Financial director Brian West said China represents about 10% of the Boeing commercial aircraft portfolio.
Boeing had planned to deliver around 50 new airplanes to China for the rest of the year, West said, and was evaluating options to return to marketing the 41 planes already built or in process.
“For the nine planes that are not yet in the production system, we are committed to our clients to understand their intentions to receive delivery and, if necessary, we have the ability to assign those positions to other customers,” Ortberg said.
“We are not going to continue building airplanes that will not take them,” said Ortberg.
The monitoring data of the Aviation Flights Group shows 36 aircraft built for Chinese clients in several stages of production and are now in the USA. UU., Including the three returned airplanes.
Boeing data show 130 unfilling orders for airlines and leases based in China, including 96 of its most selling maximum 737 model. The sources of the industry say that a significant portion of the more than 760 orders without filling for those that Boeing has not yet named a buyer is for China.
The rate of the rate occurs when Boeing has been recovering from an import freezing of almost five years in 737 Max Jets to China and a previous round of commercial tensions.
West said the problem is a short -term challenge, and that China begins to take airplanes again, or Boeing prepares airplanes to return to marketing.
“Customers call, asking for additional airplanes,” he said.
Washington pointed out the opening to the reduction of the commercial war this week, stating that high tariffs between the United States and China are not sustainable.
However, analysts say that confusion on changing rates could leave many aircraft deliveries in limbo, and some airline CEO suggest that they would differ the delivery of airplanes instead of salary tasks.
