It's a double whammy for us,” Port of Seattle Commissioner Sam Cho said of the tariffs targeting Canada, China and Mexico. “It’s going to be really, really harmful.”

Despite all of that, workers feel there is momentum inside the companies’ factories. “I feel like we are going in the correct direction so to speak. We’ve ramped up production, with limitations of course,” said John Jones, a Boeing employee for two years.

Mechanics in Everett this week completed rework on the last of the 787 jets that had to be stored long-term until thin gaps at the fuselage joins were repaired.

Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been stuck in space after their originally scheduled eight-day mission ended up with a malfunction during takeoff.

A drain on Boeing Co.'s finances ended late last week when a West Coast factory the planemaker set up to repair tiny fuselage gaps on more than 100 787 Dreamliner jets rolled out the last plane needing fixes.

Any threats of tariffs or enacted tariffs will have huge impacts, especially with countries on the Pacific Rim,” Brian Surratt, CEO of Greater Seattle Partners, told the Business Journal in February.

The German airline group has been struggling with its ageing fleet as hundreds of newer models face delivery delays.

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