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Delta Skirts Trump Tariffs by Sending Airbus Jets on Tour

  • New planes go to Amsterdam, Tokyo, San Salvador -- not Atlanta
  • Airline says it won’t import EU aircraft with levies in effect
Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg
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Delta Air Lines Inc. is sidestepping millions of dollars in U.S. tariffs on European jetliners by initially routing them far outside the country to such places as Amsterdam, Tokyo and El Salvador.