On April 15 and 16, 2025, a claim ( archived) circulated online that China had halted or canceled all its orders of airplanes from the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing. An X post of a news report on the topic was captioned:

A Boeing jet earmarked for China was returning to the United States on Friday, flight tracking data showed, as the planemaker's flagship delivery plant outside Shanghai was drawn into a deepening tariff war between Beijing and Washington.

It is unclear whether the airline suspended its plan because of China's order to stop buying planes from Boeing or because American products now carry a levy of 125%, which would