The Boeing plane destined to be used by a Chinese airline was going back to the United States on Monday, according to flight tracking data, in what seemed to be another victim of bilateral eye tariffs for an eye launched by President Donald Trump in his global commercial offensive.
The Boeing 737 Max 8 landed in the American territory of Guam on Monday, after leaving the Boeing Termination Center in Zhoushan, near Shanghai, as shown data from the Airnav Radar flight monitoring website.
Guam is one of the stops that make these flights on the 8,000 -kilometer trip through the Pacific between the American Boeing Production Center in Seattle and the Zhoushan termination center, where Boeing transports the airplanes for the final work and the delivery to a Chinese carrier.
On Sunday, a 737 Max painted with the free airline of the Chinese airline Xiamen Airlines made the return trip from Zhoushan and landed at the Boeing Field in Seattle.
A Xiamen Airlines spokesman confirmed on Monday that two planes marked for the airline had gone to the United States, but refused to give a reason.
It is not clear what part made the decision that the two planes returned to the United States.
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However, Boeing could find a replacement buyer in Malaysia Airlines, who has said he was talking to the manufacturer about the acquisition of airplanes that could be available in case Chinese airlines stop receiving deliveries.
Trump raised this month the basic tariffs to Chinese imports at 145%. In retaliation, China has imposed a 125% tariff on US products. A Chinese airline that receives a Boeing aircraft could be harmed by tariffs, since a new 737 Max has a market value of around 55 million dollars, as I was going, an aviation consultant.
The plane flew from Seattle to Zhoushan a little less than a month ago.
Boeing did not respond immediately to a comment request.
The return of the 737 Max aircraft, the best -selling model of Boeing, is the last interruption signal in the deliveries of new aircraft due to a collapse in the status of tax free stores of the aerospace industry for decades.
The tariff war and the apparent change of meaning in deliveries occur when Boeing has been recovering from an import freezing of almost five years in 737 Max airplanes and a previous round of commercial tensions.
The confusion about the change of rates could leave many delivery of airplanes in the limbo, with some executive directors of airlines saying that they would postpone the delivery of airplanes instead of paying tariffs, analysts say.
With Reuters information.
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