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The United States Department of Commerce sided with Boeing in its dispute with Bombardier and placed countervailing duties of 219.63 per cent on imports of the Montreal-based aircraft manufacturer’s C-Series planes.

The decision comes after Boeing complained to the Commerce Department that Bombardier sold 75 C-Series jets, with an option to buy 50 more, to Delta Air Lines at an artificially low price and that it was able to do so because it was the beneficiary of unfair subsidies from the Canadian and Quebec governments.

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Boeing had been asking for a countervailing duty of 80 per cent.

“The U.S. values its relationship with Canada, but even our closest allies must play by the rules,” Wilbur Ross, the U.S. Commerce Secretary, said in a release. “The subsidization of goods by foreign governments is something that the Trump administration takes very seriously, and we will continue to evaluate and verify the accuracy of this preliminary determination.”