China has agreed to buy 200 Boeing jets, with a potential for the order to rise to as many as 750 planes, United States President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday, adding that the planes would have GE Aerospace engines.The deal "includes approximately 200 planes and a promise of up to 750 if they do a good job," Trump told reporters. More details on the deal, such as the type of jets and the deliverytimeline, were not immediately available.
The orders, if finalized, would mark Boeing's first major Chinese deal in nearly a decade, after the US planemaker was largely shut out of the world's second-largest aviation market amid trade tensions between Beijing and Washington.
Boeing said the deal involved "an initial commitment" for 200 aircraft and that it expected more such commitments to follow after what it described as the initial tranche.
The planemaker traditionally uses the word "commitments" to refer to preliminary deals that are yet to be finalized, and are not posted on the company's official order backlog.
Boeing said it now looked forward "to continually addressing China's aircraft demand".
