BMW AG is pressing Berlin to vote against imposing significantly higher European Union tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, joining other German carmakers that don’t want to risk a spat with their most important market.

Germany's influential auto-industry lobby urged the German government on Wednesday to oppose proposed punitive EU tariffs on imported Chinese electric vehicles. A vote on the tariffs by EU countries is scheduled for Friday,

Additional tariffs harm globally active companies in this country and could provoke a trade dispute from which no one gains,” BMW chief executive officer Oliver Zipse said on Wednesday, as per the report.

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