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While the UK-US agreement will help safeguard jobs and the headline tariff rate is superior to the 15% duty the US is set to apply to vehicles from the European Union, it has a potentially aggravating catch: the 10% import tax will apply to the first 25,000 UK vehicles arriving in the US each quarter; whereas those exceeding the cap will be charged 27.5%.
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