WTO set to publish ruling on Boeing subsidies

GENEVA — The WTO is expected Thursday to partly uphold an EU complaint against decades of US state support for aircraft maker Boeing which it is claimed meant billions of dollars in lost sales for rival Airbus.

The ruling, a second key part in the bruising dispute between two of the world's biggest trading powers and their dominant aircraft makers, was released confidentially to US and EU authorities on January 31.

Neither of the state parties in the dispute have commented so far.