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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. Larry Cup, of course,

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Speaker 1: is the CEO of GE Aerospace. It's always fantastic to

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Speaker 1: catch up with him. Let's kick the conversation off. Larry,

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Speaker 1: good morning, nice to see thanks for making the time.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the conversation that is happening in the

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Speaker 1: halls here in New Delhi, and that is about where

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Speaker 1: the tariffs mean price rises. Is that conversation already beginning.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've been talking to customers throughout the weekend here

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Speaker 2: at IATA about the US trade policies and really what

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Speaker 2: we've tried to do, guys just remind everybody that what

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Speaker 2: we've been advocating.

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Speaker 3: For is a return to where we were on.

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Speaker 2: The heels of nineteen seventy nine Civil Aviation Agreement, which

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Speaker 2: really provided terror free trade. Yeah, amongst all the signataries,

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Speaker 2: that was a positive for the US heerospace industry. I

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Speaker 2: think that is why the US enjoys a seventy five

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Speaker 2: billion dollar annual trade surplus today. But we'll see how

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Speaker 2: that plays out. There's a series of biladeral negotiations that

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Speaker 2: are acting.

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Speaker 3: Of what we've.

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Speaker 2: Shared with customers and with our investors is we think

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Speaker 2: we've got about a five hundred million dollar residual cost

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Speaker 2: challenge as a result of those tariffs.

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Speaker 3: There are a whole host of things we've done with

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Speaker 2: We're exercising the duty drawback options and the like, but

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Speaker 2: we will be taking cost actions and passing along some

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Speaker 2: of that residual.

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Speaker 3: You're already saying.

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Speaker 1: It on you. It's already starting to IMPACTE you a.

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Speaker 3: Business very much, so very much.

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Speaker 2: So that's why we're managing it as best we can,

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Speaker 2: mitigating it where we can through those supply chain improvements,

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Speaker 2: but also through the costs and price actions.

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Speaker 3: I referenced a moment ago.

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Speaker 1: And customers are saying what they're saying, you need to

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Speaker 1: we can take some of it, or come on, how

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Speaker 1: does that conversation go? Well?

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Speaker 3: I hate the conversation really starts back with advocacy.

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Speaker 2: I think we've worked very well with our airline customers,

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Speaker 2: with our airframe or partners, making sure that the industry

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Speaker 2: you're really speaking with one voice at this point in time,

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Speaker 2: because so many people, I think, believe that the prior regime.

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Speaker 3: Really benefited the industry.

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Speaker 2: In turn, we're helping make sure that everyone understands what

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Speaker 2: we're doing, both operationally to mitigate but also again the

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Speaker 2: cost actions that we're taking. You have to make sure

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Speaker 2: that we're buffering that as best we can.

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Speaker 1: Your hope would be that you would go back to

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Speaker 1: that original agreement. I eat no tariffs on the kind

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Speaker 1: of products that you make, But at the moment, it

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Speaker 1: looks like ten percent is the minimum the Trump administration

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Speaker 2: Well, we're continuing to advocate a full throated way, guy

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Speaker 2: for something akin to where we were with the seventy

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Speaker 2: nine agreement. Through these bilaterals, right, the US struck at

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Speaker 2: a bilateral, the UK others are at active. I think

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Speaker 2: that's really where we are.

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Speaker 1: In terms of kind of where that takes the industry. Next.

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Speaker 1: Are we going to get a situation where we end

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Speaker 1: up with uneven playing fields in terms of how you

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Speaker 3: Well, I think it's probably too early to tell.

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Speaker 2: Guy. Again, I think we want to make sure we're

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Speaker 2: advocating as forcefully as we can taking the mitigation actions

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Speaker 2: be they operational, be they cost oriented to the full

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Speaker 1: You're watching for, as you say, a fluid environment, but

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Speaker 1: the European Union has obviously got to be a big

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Speaker 2: So again, I think what we're looking for is to

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Speaker 2: US government is actively engaged with multiple trading partners. Let's

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Speaker 1: In terms of other factors that kind of work around this.

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Speaker 1: is it appreciating dollar. How does that affect your business?

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Speaker 1: Are you already started to see the effect of it?

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Speaker 1: Is there a translation effect that we should be looking

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's really a material issue for US

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Speaker 1: Working forward from here, we're now thinking about how Boeing

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Speaker 2: What a wonderful challenge to have, right because be it

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Speaker 3: So we know we're going to.

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Speaker 2: Have to do more in the back half of this

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Speaker 2: that we enjoy so operationally.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot that we're doing guy to make sure we're.

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Speaker 2: Going in as deeply as we can into our supply chain,

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Speaker 2: helping our suppliers identify bottlenecks, resolve those as quickly as

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Speaker 1: As we those two factor is interacting the tariffs and

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Speaker 3: Well, it is what it is, right.

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Speaker 2: I think we've long embraced the idea that we have

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Speaker 3: Well, we watch it with interest. As you would imagine.

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Speaker 2: through the Department of Defense, and we're pleased to be

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Speaker 1: Talk about the customers. There is a concern clearly beginning

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Speaker 2: that has been the case for some time with respect

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Speaker 2: that continues. It might get dialed up, is your question suggests.

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Speaker 2: But that doesn't bother us. We welcome the scrutiny. We're

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Speaker 1: Talking of leading edge products, we have one behind us.

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Speaker 1: Were going back to a work so basically, just to

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Speaker 2: Well, guy, that we're going to go forward with this

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Speaker 2: sort of architecture, and you describe well the open fan effort,

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Speaker 2: the twenty thirties. So we're excited about this. It's been

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Speaker 3: All of our customer conversations here at Ayada.

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Speaker 1: Great to see Larry, Thanks very much indeed for making

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Speaker 1: some time for us here on Blomberg. Fantastic to see you,

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Speaker 1: Larry Culp, the CEO of ge Aerospace, Thank you very much, indeed,