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Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said on Wednesday that he would try to protect the turnaround of the aerospace giant against the impact of the trade war between the United States and its business partners, in particular China.
Before the announcement of the quarterly profits of the company, Ortberg sent a letter to the employees of Boeing describing the progress of the company in four areas of its recovery plan, which included comments on the way in which the current commercial disputes could have an impact on the company.
“While we look closely at world trade developments, our solid start to the year combined with the demand for planes and our backlog of half a billion dollars for our products and services gives us the flexibility we need to sail in this environment,” wrote Ortberg.
During the part of questions and answers of the call for profits, Ortberg told analysts: “I feel really good in our global plan for the year, even if I expect the Chinese situation to remove part of the margin that we built with our strong deliveries of the first quarter.”
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The CEO of Boeing, Kelly Ortberg, testifies before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transport Committee on production quality problems on April 2, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)
Ortberg said China is the only country where Boeing has encountered problems with aircraft deliveries due to the Trump administration prices, although it noted that the company was monitoring potential reprisals by Europe and is in regular contact with the White House.
“I do not think that a day passes where we are not engaged with someone in the administration, including … the secretaries of the cabinet and to Potus himself,” said Ortberg in reference to President Donald Trump.
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Boeing pays a 10% tax on imports from countries like Japan and Italy, although it expects to recover some of these costs when the planes are exported.
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A Boeing 777 from China Eastern Airlines was presented at Los Angeles International Airport on March 28, 2025. (Images Kevin Carter / Getty)
In CNBC commentsOrtberg said China has dismissed two of the three planes it had in the country that was ready to deliver because the Chinese government has stopped acceptance of these planes due to the commercial dispute. Boeing expected to send around 50 planes to China this year, although Ortberg said that the company would be “quite pragmatic” on how it addresses sales in China during the dispute.
“For planes that have not yet been built, we may seek to redirect them to other customers,” Ortberg told the point of sale. “For the planes that have been built, we call it remarketing. There are a lot of customers looking for the Max plane.”
This view shows the Max fuselages of Boeing 737 at the top of the wagons in a train courtyard in Seattle on December 5, 2024. (Reuters / Matt Mills McKnight)
In 2024, Boeing struggled to make problems of manufacturing quality, which prompted regulators to set limits to his production of his most sold Max 737 plane, as well as a strike that had an impact on his production at the end of last year.
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Ortberg said the company was trying to increase the production of Boeing 737 Max Aircraft with caution this year, the calling for the “key generation key” and added that Boeing also hopes to make more flights from its Starliner space program in difficulty later.
Reuters contributed to this report.
