Tariffs will do little to slow BYD’s advance in Europe

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The hostile imposition of tariffs would usually mean a slump in the targeted company’s shares. Not for BYD. The prospect of steep European tariffs on electric car imports from China had the opposite effect on the country’s biggest maker of electric vehicles. Its HK-listed shares jumped as much as 9 per cent on…