The World Trade Organization has ruled that the U.S. can impose penalty tariffs worth $7.5 billion on imports of EU goods to compensate for harm to Boeing—a move that could open up a new front in the Trump administration’s trade wars.

A WTO arbitrator said Wednesday that the U.S. was entitled to impose retaliatory duties on EU products because of illegal subsidies the EU had provided to European airplane manufacturer Airbus.

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