EU Threatens U.K. With Tariffs as Northern Ireland Spat Escalates

  • Sefcovic is first senior EU official to make threat explicitly
  • U.K. official warns EU to ‘think hard’ before any retaliation

Maros Sefcovic, left, and David Frost in London on June 9.

Photographer: Eddie Mulholland/AFP/Getty Images

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The European Union warned it could impose tariffs and quotas on the U.K. as a bitter Brexit dispute over trade with Northern Ireland escalates.