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EU Races for Post-Brexit Plan to Push Back EV Tariffs

  • High-level meeting last week kicks off search for solution
  • Most member states want 2027 extension, France is opposed

An EV on the assembly line at Volkswagen’s plant in Zwickau, Germany. 

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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The European Union is closing in on a plan to push back painful tariffs on electric cars traded with the UK.

With just over a month until the duties kick in, member states told the EU to come up with proposals including a possible postponement of the 10% tariff, after France, the only major member state opposed to an outright delay, signaled there could be a way forward.