“They’ve tried this for years.....ie making lame claims that Boeing gets subsidies”
If I recall correctly, the EU considers a U.S. defense contract awarded to Boeing a subsidy, and they use that to justify their own subsidies.
Yes they try that but of course a defense contract is not a subsidy and governments have perfectly legitimate national security reasons for favoring companies which deal with classified technologies to be domestic companies.
The Yurps are perfectly free to do the same. Oh wait! Since the Yurps spend next to nothing on their military forces I guess Airbus cannot get those lucrative contracts. Gosh, maybe they should pony up the cash to pay for their own defense at a reasonable level.
Anyway, now you see the reason why the US keeps beating their brains in at the WTO.