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struggle4progress

(125,374 posts) Sun Apr 13, 2025, 05:12 PM Apr 2025

Delta Says It Refuses To Pay Tariffs On Incoming Airbus Aircraft

Assuming that US carriers will be hit with import taxes with each Airbus aircraft delivered from overseas, Delta Air Lines’s CEO says that he won’t be paying them

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Delta Says It Refuses To Pay Tariffs On Incoming Airbus Aircraft (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2025 OP

More corps should stand their ground, flip T the bird. nt Maru Kitteh Apr 2025 #1

Right! Because no one obeys laws and courts anymore, do they? bucolic_frolic Apr 2025 #2

If the law changes from day to day Retrograde Apr 2025 #3

that's not what Delta says struggle4progress Apr 2025 #6

Won't it just be held by customs? MichMan Apr 2025 #4

Damn, i fly Delta and prefer Airbus over Boeing. dem4decades Apr 2025 #5

The importer pays the tariff, not the ultimate customer HereForTheParty Apr 2025 #7

They have and will continue to purchase them, but they will just delay delivery until Trump inevitably changes his mind. W_HAMILTON Apr 2025 #9

Could have them owned by a foreign subsidiary and lease them. nilram Apr 2025 #8

Maru Kitteh

(31,247 posts)

1. More corps should stand their ground, flip T the bird. nt

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Apr 13, 2025, 05:15 PM

Apr 2025

bucolic_frolic

(54,044 posts)

2. Right! Because no one obeys laws and courts anymore, do they?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Apr 13, 2025, 05:21 PM

Apr 2025

It's all optional?

Retrograde

(11,375 posts)

3. If the law changes from day to day

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 13, 2025, 05:36 PM

Apr 2025

seemingly at the administration’s whim, what is a company to do?

struggle4progress

(125,374 posts)

6. that's not what Delta says

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 13, 2025, 05:58 PM

Apr 2025

MichMan

(16,629 posts)

4. Won't it just be held by customs?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Apr 13, 2025, 05:36 PM

Apr 2025

dem4decades

(13,679 posts)

5. Damn, i fly Delta and prefer Airbus over Boeing.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Apr 13, 2025, 05:50 PM

Apr 2025

Can't we have nice things anymore?

HereForTheParty

(915 posts)

7. The importer pays the tariff, not the ultimate customer

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Apr 13, 2025, 06:38 PM

Apr 2025

So I'm not sure how Delta can refuse to pay it. Are they just saying they won't purchase them anymore? If that's the case, the tariff is working.

W_HAMILTON

(10,064 posts)

9. They have and will continue to purchase them, but they will just delay delivery until Trump inevitably changes his mind.

Reply to HereForTheParty (Reply #7)

Sun Apr 13, 2025, 08:37 PM

Apr 2025

"Liberation Day, everyone is gonna pay 100% tariffs! You tariff'd me back? It's now 200% tariffs on you! Oh no, the stock market is crashing, tariffs are delayed two weeks! Some country's leader said something mean about me, no more delay, 300% tariffs for you!"

This is all just a bunch of idiotic and unnecessary bullshit.

nilram

(3,471 posts)

8. Could have them owned by a foreign subsidiary and lease them.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Apr 13, 2025, 08:31 PM

Apr 2025

Wonder if that would work.

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