China’s freeze on plane deliveries would directly impact the aviation giant, which supports 1.8 million US jobs.

US aviation giant Boeing, fresh off a crippling labor dispute and quality control crisis, has now found itself drawn into the escalating trade conflict between Washington and Beijing.

It’s an arrangement made possible by a nearly 50-year-old trade agreement that allowed Boeing and other players in the U.S.

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