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By Tim Hepher and David Shepardson
Tue, July 21, 2026 astatine 4:36 AM CDT 1 min read
By Tim Hepher and David Shepardson
FARNBOROUGH, England, July 21 (Reuters) - Boeing has asked the U.S. authorities to property the European Union for transparency implicit a bundle of €3 cardinal ($3.43 billion) of loans to Airbus, resurfacing imaginable commercialized tensions days aft the 2 sides extended a tariff truce implicit pitchy subsidies.
In a missive to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, seen by Reuters, Boeing said it had been amazed by a June 29 announcement from the European Investment Bank, the EU lending arm, conscionable 4 days aft the EU backed the truce extension.
It asked the USTR to request a "full accounting of the presumption of this loan" from the EU and to explicate wherefore it was compatible with the 2021 truce agreement, which called for an "open and transparent process".
The EIB said it finances thousands of companies each twelvemonth and denied offering Airbus immoderate antithetic support.
"This is simply a normal loan, carrying interest, portion of the EIB's wide financing activity," a spokesperson said.
Airbus and Boeing declined comment.
The USTR and European Commission did not instantly respond to requests for comment.
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(Reporting by Tim Hepher, David Shepardson; Editing by Sharon Singleton)
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