President Donald Trump said the deal between China and Boeing begins with 200 planes, with the potential for China to order hundreds more.
Trump gave clarity to the total number of planes involved in the deal to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday.
“President Xi is an incredible guy, got along, made a lot of great trade deals, including over 200 planes for Boeing, with a promise of 750 planes, which will be by far the largest order ever, if they do a good job with the 200, which I’m sure they will,” he said.
“And that’s General Electric, also, the engines, so they’re buying General Electric, so it’s approximately 400-450 engines, 200 planes, and a promise of up to 750 if they do a good job,” he added. “We had an amazing time…That was a very historic couple of days.”
Trump also said he struck a deal on
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