Delta Air Lines Inc. Chief Executive Edward Bastian said Wednesday in an interview with CNBC that the 220% tariff slapped on a new Bombardier Inc. jetliner to U.S. airlines was “absurd.” The U.S. International Trade Commission’s ruling late Tuesday that it would add a tariff comes after Boeing Co. filed a complaint after Bombardier sold CSeries jets to Delta last year; a final decision on the ruling is expected next year. Delta said the Boeing didn’t produce a product that was comparable to Bombardier’s C-series, and that Boeing had offered Delta used jets as an alternative, the CNBC report said. “We think it’s absurd,” Bastian told CNBC. Delta’s stock dropped 1.8% in afternoon trade, while Boeing shares gained 0.7% and the S&P 500 tacked on 0.5%. The Canada-listed shares of Bombardier tumbled 8.4%.
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