Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 5:33 pm on 18 September 2023.
Liam Byrne
Labour, Birmingham, Hodge Hill
5:33,
18 September 2023
There are, of course, proposals by Chinese battery makers to consider investing in the UK. Can the Minister tell the House whether, if investments are made by those Chinese firms, the cars we make with those products will still be allowed to be exported tariff-free and will not get caught by new tariffs because of the amount of foreign content they might contain?
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