Bombardier: Trump droht kanadischem Flugzeugbauer mit Verkaufsverbot

President Donald Trump threatened to ban Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier from selling its planes in the United States unless the company began producing them there. "No more sales of Bombardier in the United States! Their products are not good enough!" Trump declared on his online platform Truth Social on Monday. If the firm wanted to enter the US market, it would have to manufacture there and stop treating America like a "piggy bank."

The White House initially offered no comment on how such a ban would be implemented. Bombardier itself also made no statement. The remarks came amid mounting trade tensions. Canada planned to introduce a series of retaliatory tariffs against the US on Tuesday in response to Trump's policy. Industry experts doubted that a sales ban could stand up legally.

Bombardier's aircraft are certified by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and are included in the USMCA free trade agreement negotiated by Trump. Aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia also pointed out that most private jets built by Bombardier are powered by US engines from Honeywell and GE Aerospace. He did not expect customers to cancel their orders.

The aerospace industry remains largely untouched by Trump's tariff policies so far, with the US sector recently posting a trade surplus of $109.2 billion. Many Bombardier employees in the US, a rival to US maker Gulfstream, were already well-established in the country. The Montreal-based company employed 3,500 people in the US, worked with 2,800 suppliers, and operated several factories and service centers.

Wings for the flagship Global 8000 were manufactured in Texas, while a weapons division was based in Kansas. About half of the 5,100 Bombardier aircraft in use worldwide are based in the US. Trump had threatened in January to revoke the certification of Bombardier's business jets and impose 50 percent tariff penalties to force Canada to certify several Gulfstream models.