Mubasher: Tesla's vehicle sales in China dropped 70% year-on-year in October, the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) said on Tuesday.

The US electric carmaker’s sales in the world’s second largest economy amounted to 211 cars last month, according to the CPCA data.

The sale plunge highlights how the China-US trade war is taking its toll on the US electric carmaker, the industry body told Reuters.

The American electric carmaker, which imports all the autos it sells in China, said previously that tariff hikes on car imports were hammering its sales in the world's largest auto market.

In July, China increased tariffs on imports of US autos to 40% amid an escalating trade conflict with the US.

“While so-called new-energy vehicle sales have continued to climb in China, wider auto sales have slowed sharply since the middle of the year, taking the market to the brink of its first annual sales contraction in almost three decades,” CNBC reported.

Tesla said last week it was slashing the price of its Model X and Model S cars in China in an effort to make the cars “more affordable” and absorb the blow from higher tariffs.