ATC SECTOR LIKELY CASUALTY OF NEW USA AND CHINA LATEST TRADE WAR
April 1st, 2018
THE AIR traffic control sector could become a casualty of a new trade war brewing between the USA and China, unless the two governments strike a deal rather than impose tit-for-tat duties.
Upset about alleged thefts of American intellectual property by Chinese industrialists, the USA has proposed imposing 25% duties on a wide-range of China-made manufactured goods. These include air navigation equipment: electrical and non-electrical direction-finding compasses; other optical instruments and appliances for aeronautical or space navigation; automatic pilots for ...
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