Google adtech fine on hold as EU awaits lower US car duties, sources say

EU antitrust regulators have delayed fining Alphabet‘s Google over its adtech business, while waiting for the United States to cut tariffs on European cars as part of a trade deal, three people with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.

Tariffs on cars were a big part of the negotiations that led to a trade deal between the United States and the European Union.

The executive European Commission last week proposed to scrap tariffs on imported US industrial goods and it expects an announcement soon from the United States on its promised cut in US…