Boeing could assess moving up production of its best-selling Max jets to 47 a month by the end of the year, its CEO said. The company also plans to resume deliveries of airplanes to Chinese airlines next month after a pause during a trade battle between the country the Trump administration. Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg largely brushed off the tariff impact and said he didn’t expect all the duties to be permanent. Boeing Co. 737 Max fuselages at the company’s manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington, on April 15, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images
Boeing‘s airplane deliveries to China will resume next month after handovers were paused amid a trade war with the Trump administration, CEO Kelly Ortberg said Thursday, as he brushed off the impact of tit-for-tat tariffs with some of the United States’ largest trading partners this year.
Ortberg had said last month that China had paused deliveries.
“China has now indicated … they’re going to take deliveries,” Ortberg said. The first deliveries will be next month, he told a Bernstein conference on Thursday.