The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer and a copyright notice . The Civil Aircraft Sector Overview Statistics 1. The European Commission has exclusive competence for bilateral and multilateral trade policy in this area. The civil aircraft industry is mainly concentrated in the EU and in the United States.
Public support is in fact one of the most contentious issues in the aircraft industry.
At multilateral level, trade in civil aircraft is governed by the 1979 GATT Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft . The civil aircraft sector is concentrated mainly in the United States and in Europe. In 1998, the total value of production of the aerospace sector in the US was EURO 133 billion. In Europe the value of production was EURO 59 billion, followed by Canada and Japan. The aero-engine sector is the second largest in terms of turnover.