No plans for tariffs on Chinese EVs, insists UK official

The United Kingdom has no plans to follow the European Union's lead and impose tariffs on imports of China-made electric vehicles, or EVs, the nation's new business minister said.

Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds, who started overseeing the country's trade policy after the Labour Party's July 4 landslide election win, said at a meeting of G7 fellow ministers in Italy on Tuesday that he had discussed the EU's planned tariffs with his European counterparts, and that the idea did not appeal to him.

"I am not ruling anything out but, if you have a very much export-orientated industry, the decision you take (must be) the right one for that sector," the Financial Times quoted him as saying.