BRUSSELS, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The European Commission has

received minimum price offers from the Chinese Chamber of

Commerce covering several electric vehicle producers and

separately from a number of individual exporters as part of

negotiations to avert EU tariffs, a senior EU official said on

Monday.

"I won't exclude it, but it seems very, very difficult to

reach an agreement by the end of October, because (of)... the

very complex, difficult issues to solve," the official said,

referring to the scheduled end of an EU anti-subsidy

investigation into EVs, when tariffs are to be imposed.