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James Shrubsall

'Final nail in the coffin': British e-bike makers fear for the future after China tariff scrapped

Shipping Containers China.

The British government may have put the "final nail in the coffin" for numerous UK e-bike manufacturers when it decided to scrap anti-dumping tariffs on China earlier this month.

That is the view of Wisper Bikes CEO David Miall. Like others, he moved production out of China to combat the tariffs, but has now been left with 2,500 bikes that have all, he says, "been devalued dramatically" by the news.

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