China rejects EU request for voluntary hybrid car export curbs, FT reports

Oct 7 (Reuters) - China has rejected a European Union request for voluntary curbs on hybrid car exports as the two sides enter the last stretch of negotiations to avoid a trade conflict, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

The European Commission now hopes to get Beijing to accept a unilateral EU measure to cap hybrid imports instead, the newspaper added, citing two diplomats briefed on the plan.

Reuters could not immediately verify the FT report.

(Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh in Barcelona, Editing by Timothy Heritage)