Even as U.S. and European trade negotiators continue their back- and-forth over aircraft development subsidies, strategists on both sides of the Atlantic are weighing what to do if, as expected, the talks' self imposed Apr. 11 deadline passes without an agreement. For later, the U.S. eyes other offenders, notably Japan and Russia. Partisans on both sides went through the motions of assertion and rebuttal last week, and no one expected any sort of deal in the days that remained. But there are at least two alternatives to an immediate move toward litigation in a full-blown World Trade Organization (WTO) case, and in any event, procedural rules will keep the matter outside the WTO for at least a month.
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