British Cars Risk Some Tariffs in EU Trade Deal – source

09/30/2020

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Costas Pitas | Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s car industry risks some tariffs being imposed after Brexit as Brussels will not allow components from countries such as Turkey and Japan to count towards a content threshold in a trade deal, an industry source said on Wednesday.

In ongoing talks to strike a post-Brexit trade agreement, the EU will not accept non-EU parts being combined with EU and British ones to meet a roughly 55% level for local content, the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.

The details were outlined in a letter from Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator David Frost to the sector, the country’s biggest exporter of goods, and were first reported by the BBC.

While such a move would not lead to tariffs on manufacturers with high domestic and European sourcing, it could affect Japanese manufacturers such as Nissan, which brings in more content from elsewhere than some of its peers.

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