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GENEVA, Switzerland, March 31 (UPI) -- The World Trade Organization is expected to rule Boeing Co. conventional zillions of dollars in dirty U.S. support, the concern of dweller rival Airbus said.

European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. supplementary Airbus of Blagnac, France, said it believed the judgement -- expected weekday -- would support that Boeing, of Seattle, had conventional "massive and illegal aid" from the U.S. polity through research and development programs at the Pentagon and NASA.

Boeing disputed Airbus' assessment, locution the expected 1,000-page report would probable be "a large rejection of complaints by the dweller Union," although it acknowledged the judgement would exhibit most $3 1000000000 in U.S. aid Boeing conventional was "non-compliant" with concern change rules, Europolitics reported.

This is farther less than the more than $20 1000000000 in subsidies the WTO said last June Airbus received, Boeing said.

Both companies have complained since 2004 that the another has conventional zillions in dirty subsidies from their respective governments.

Boeing has complained EADS could rely on dweller polity subsidies to undercut Boeing's price or to absorb losses if it won the lessen with a low bid.

EADS claims Boeing's subsidies, which it estimated topped $5 billion, not exclusive caused EADS to retrograde $45 1000000000 in sales from 2002 to 2006 but also helped Boeing amend the 787 Dreamliner.

The Dreamliner is the prototypal passenger jet prefabricated mainly with plastic composites, making it device and more fuel-efficient than another commercial aircraft.

The Dreamliner, farther behindhand schedule, took its prototypal test-flight Dec. 15, 2009. Boeing officials said they wish to obtain certification for the form midyear and have the prototypal planes to All Nippon Airways by September.

All Nippon ordered 50 Dreamliners with an choice to acquire 50 more in April 2004.