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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason, Lisa O’Carroll and Jasper Jolly

No 10 leaves option open to impose Chinese EV tariffs if UK joins EU scheme

Workers assemble EVs on an overhead production line in a factory
An electric vehicle production line in Ningbo, China. Photograph: Nick Carey/Reuters

No 10 has left the door open to imposing tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles as part of the Made in Europe package, prompting a warning from Beijing that such a move would be “discriminatory”.

Downing Street said on Friday that it would “welcome the objective to have the UK included in the Industrial Accelerator Act” after France dropped its opposition to Britain joining the scheme.

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