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Today on Forbes, a Trump win could be costly for Boeing and aerospace and defense.

New Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg has a full plate. His Seattle area assembly workers are on strike.

Customers and regulators are breathing down his neck to fix manufacturing

quality problems with the company's commercial airplanes, and his defense and space division

is bleeding red ink. But if voters return former President Donald Trump to the White House in the

November 5th election, he could face a plane load of new problems.

On the campaign trail, Trump has promised to enact sweeping tariffs on imports that would

ignite trade wars that could make those waged in his first administration look like a

water gun fight.

Defense spending and exports could be threatened, analysts say, and conservative ambitions

to overhaul the Federal Aviation Administration,

would cause turmoil at a time when the agency is deeply engaged in trying to diagnose and

fix systemic problems at Boeing.

Trump has proposed tariffs of 10 to 20 percent on every country that trades with the U.S.

and 60 percent tariffs on China.

Trump and his supporters claim doing so would bring manufacturing

back to the United States. The Coalition for a Prosperous America, an industry-supported group

that is lobbied for more trade protections, projects that a 10% universal tariff would create

2.8 million jobs. However, for Boeing and the rest of the U.S. commercial

aerospace industry, which generated a $47 billion trade surplus in 2023, the Trump tariffs

would be terrible. Richard Abolafia, a managing director at Aerodynamic Advisory, said that the

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