Delta Says It Refuses To Pay Tariffs On Incoming Airbus Aircraft

[struggle4progress]

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

[Maru Kitteh]

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

[bucolic_frolic]

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

It's all optional?

[Retrograde]

3. If the law changes from day to day

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

[struggle4progress]

6. that's not what Delta says

[MichMan]

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

[dem4decades]

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

Can't we have nice things anymore?

[HereForTheParty]

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

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]

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

"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]

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

Wonder if that would work.