Boeing has about 50 planes that have to be sold because Chinese customers have said they won't take deliveries.

China has sent back planes it ordered from the US in its latest retaliation over Trump tariffs, the boss of aircraft maker Boeing has said. Kelly Ortberg said two planes had already been returned and another would follow after trade tensions between the two countries escalated.

Then came President Trump’s trade war. The jet maker wanted to highlight financial results from its latest quarter showing that the company is emerging from its yearslong financial crisis. Instead, Chief Executive Kelly Ortberg spent much of the morning Wednesday talking about a pair of Boeing jets returned by China and issuing reassurances that tariff wars won’t derail the company’s turnaround.