threatened warned last month<\/a> he would decertify and place tariffs on all Canadian-made planes unless the government approved the four Gulfstream luxury aircraft, marking the latest escalation of trade tensions between the two countries.<\/p>\nThe go-ahead from Transport Canada comes despite de-icing concerns flagged by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which granted the G700 and G800 conditional certification in 2024.<\/p>\n
The FAA said Gulfstream, owned by General Dynamics, has until the end of this year to prove that the two plane types function “properly under the probable operating conditions where ice may form in the fuel system,” according to a temporary exemption granted in 2024.<\/p>\n
Experts had cast doubt on Trump’s ability to decertify planes \u2014 typically the responsibility of the FAA, not the Oval Office \u2014 in a proposed move that would deal a blow to plane makers, airlines and travellers on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n
Historically, plane groundings by regulators have related strictly to safety, like when the Boeing 737 Max 8 was banned from the skies for 20 months during the first Trump administration. Aviation authorities across the globe issued directives in March 2019 after a deadly crash that killed all 157 people on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight in the second of two Max crashes less than five months apart.<\/p>\n
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Transport Canada certifies Gulfstream jets amid Trump aviation tariff threat<\/p>\n
Transport Canada has certified the American-made Gulfstream G500 and G600 business jets, according to a document posted on the federal government\u2019s website. These jets were at the centre of U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s aviation dispute last month, accusing Canada of ‘illegally’ refusing to certify several Gulfstream models. Trump threatened to impose a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian aircraft, including Bombardier jets, and said his administration would ‘decertify’ them. He has not followed through on his threat.<\/p>\n
In a Truth Social post on Jan. 29, Trump singled out Bombardier in a threat to ground all Canadian-made aircraft and slap them with a 50 per cent tariff. White House officials later clarified that the effective banning of Canadian-built planes from American skies would apply only to new aircraft, rather than the more than than 5,400 Canadian-made planes and helicopters registered in the United States.<\/p>\n
Bombardier and Gulfstream are head-to-head rivals, with the Global series battling for market share against Gulfstream’s latest models.<\/p>\n
Any blow to Bombardier would be a blow to American companies, too.<\/p>\n
Bombardier has said it employs 3,000 people across nine sites south of the border and counts 2,800 U.S. suppliers. The company’s jets typically boast at least 40 per cent U.S. content.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the U.S. enjoys a large trade surplus with Canada in aerospace, meaning the general trade imbalance Trump has cited to justify other levies does not apply.<\/p>\n
Aircraft constructed in Canada include Bombardier luxury jets, De Havilland Canada Twin Otters and water bombers, A220 single-aisle jets made by European aerospace giant Airbus and helicopters from Texas-based Bell Textron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-497345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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