After the EU vote to allow additional EU tariffs on electric cars from China, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner warned of an escalation in trade policy disputes. He asserted in a post on X on Friday that despite the vote, the European Commission, under Ursula von der Leyen’s leadership, should not trigger a trade war. “We need a negotiated solution,” he wrote. In a vote in Brussels, there was not a sufficient majority of EU countries against additional EU tariffs on electric cars from China, which means the commission can decide to impose duties of up to 35.3%. Germany had opposed the …