GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization's appellate body has ruled that the European Union is continuing to provide illegal subsidies to plane-maker Airbus. The WTO decision on the latest in a string of tussles between Europe's Airbus and U.S. rival Boeing comes as the Trump administration has exerted intense pressure on the Geneva-based organization over what the president alleges is its "unfair" treatment of the United States. The appellate body maintained a ruling by the WTO's compliance panel that EU "launch aid" provided to Airbus resulted in lost sales for Boeing in the twin-aisle and very-large aircraft markets. The move means that the U.S., under WTO rules, can ask an arbitrator to determine the level of retaliation it can seek against the European bloc as a result of its failure to comply. Read more on NewsOK.com