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Business/Financial

To Keep Aerospace Industry Vital, Policy Can’t Be Neglected, AIA Says

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Thursday, February 14th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt The aerospace industry saw success in 2007, but it won't remain robust without policies in place to sustain it, according to the Aerospace Industry Association (AIA). The industry expects to reach some $199 billion in sales for 2007. About 40 percent of those sales are exported, resulting in about a $57 billion trade surplus, the largest industrial trade surplus the nation has, only surpassed by agriculture, said Clayton Jones, chairman, president and CEO of Rockwell Collins [COL],…

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