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US to raise tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles: report

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Several foreign firms have announced tech partnerships in China as they try to get a hold in the world's biggest electric vehicle market. [AFP]

The United States is planning to increase tariffs on Chinese clean energy goods, news reports said Friday, with levies on electric vehicles expected to roughly quadruple.

The move, reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes at the end of a long-awaited review of tariffs that were imposed during a trade war between Washington and Beijing.

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