• An Airbus A380 takes off for its demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget airport, north of Paris in 2015. The World Trade Organization says the United States can impose tariffs on up to $7.5 billion worth of goods from the European Union as retaliation for illegal subsidies to European plane-maker Airbus — a record award from the trade body. | AP
    An Airbus A380 takes off for its demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget airport, north of Paris in 2015. The World Trade Organization says the United States can impose tariffs on up to $7.5 billion worth of goods from the European Union as retaliation for illegal subsidies to European plane-maker Airbus — a record award from the trade body. | AP

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LONDON/BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON – The United States on Wednesday said it would slap 10 percent tariffs on European-made Airbus planes and 25 percent duties on French wine, Scotch and Irish whiskeys, and cheese from across the continent as punishment for illegal EU aircraft subsidies.

The announcement came after the World Trade Organization gave Washington a green light to impose tariffs on $7.5 billion worth of EU goods annually in the long-running case. The award is the largest in WTO history.

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