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CEO Kelly Ortberg said Thursday that Boeing aircraft will resume next month in amid a trade war with the Trump administration.

Alterberg said last month that China has stopped deliveries.

"China now says … they will deliver," Alterberg said, who said at a Bernstein meeting on Thursday that the first delivery will be next month.

Boeing, the top U.S. exporter, whose aircraft production helps to alleviate U.S. trade deficits, has been paying tariffs on imported components from Italy and Japan to buy its wide-body fantasy plane, which was made in South Carolina, South Carolina, and added that it can be investigated when the aircraft is exported again.

“The only duty we have to assume is the responsibility of shipping to American Airlines,” he said.

Regarding the rapidly changing trade policy, which included several pauses and some exemptions, Alterberg said: “In the long run, I personally don’t think these will be permanent.”

He reiterated that Boeing plans to increase production this year at the best-selling 737 Max Jet, which will require Federal Aviation Administration approval.

The FAA limited the output of the workhorse aircraft to 38 months last year, after the plug was not fixed when it blew up the Boeing factory in the air in the first minute of an Alaska Airlines flight.

Alterberg said the company could produce 42 largest jets per month in the mid-term and evaluated a 47 increase in about half a year a month.

He said the company's maximum 7 and maximum 10 variants of long-term delays are the largest and smallest aircraft in the narrow family, and are scheduled to be certified by the end of the year.

Since recapturing the rope at Boeing last August, many airline executives have praised Alterberg's leadership for stopping years of losses and ending reputation and safety crises, including the impact of two fatal biggest crashes.

CEOs have long complained about the company’s delivery delays, which left them without planes during the pandemic travel boom.

"I do think Boeing has turned the corner," United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby told CNBC's "Squawk Box" earlier Thursday. He said supply chain issues limit the delivery of the entire new aircraft.

“Our over-ordered aircraft think supply chains will be challenged,” he said.