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Fortune
Ryan Hogg

Airbus CEO blames U.S. for trade wars rather than China in old Boeing flare-up

Airbus general director Guillaume Faury delivers a speech during an agreement signing cerenomy with Rolls Royce and Turkish Airlines. (Credit: OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)

The CEO of Airbus has a view on who’s to blame for the trade wars that have engulfed the global economy, but unusually he’s not pointing fingers at China.

Speaking to German publication Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Guillaume Faury agreed that the rise in protectionism had forced the company to engage in more “nearshoring” as a security measure for its supply chain. It currently manufactures 60% of its aircraft in Europe, and 20% each in the U.S. and China.

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