By Phil Stewart
BRASILIA, April 28 (Reuters) - Brazil readied itself on Friday for more bad news from the World Trade Organisation, due to hand down later in day its final report on Brazilian export subsidies to regional aircraft maker Embraer.
The government said it expected "no significant changes" from the WTO's interim decision issued late last month, which Brazilian officials at the time labeled more "unfavorable" to itself than to Canadian airplane producer Bombardier Inc.
Canada and Brazil have long accused each other of unfairly subsidising the two rivals, which are the third and fourth largest civil aircraft makers in the world.
Friday's final report rules on to what extent the two countries have brought their respective subsidy programmes into compliance after both countries were judged to have violated free-trade regulations last year.
"We do not expect any significant changes in content (from the interim report)," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman who declined to be named.
"Between seven and 10 days, the document will circulate to other (WTO) member nations. At this point there will be a more open debate on the subject."
The spokesman said declined to comment on the report, adding that "our comments are already publicly known."
Last month, Foreign Minister director Waldemar Carneiro Leao said WTO viewed in its interim report that the modifications made to Brazil's ProEx export subsidy programme "are not sufficient to comply with the WTO's legislation on subsidies and compensatory measures."
"We consider the the treatment to be a bit unfavourable to us and we are considering the possibility of appealing the decision," Leao said.
Leao also added that the WTO report stated Canada "only partially completed" the Geneva-based settlement body's earlier demand to modify subsidies handed out under the country's Technology Partnerships Canada programme.
But earlier this week, Bombardier's Chief Executive Robert Brown hailed the WTO ruling as a "clear win," which he said would curtail pricing pressure from its top competitor.
"We expect (the subsidies) not to be as significant a factor as in the past. We expect Brazil to find ways to bring the (Embraer) programmes into compliance," Brown said.:
