A Senate Finance Committee Majority Staff investigation found that certain automakers had imported cars and parts linked to Chinese forced labor.

Last week, a U.S. Senator called for additional tariffs on Chinese automobiles, and members of Congress introduced legislation that would impose tariffs on Chinese drones.

As the U.S. Trade Representative's Office (USTR) continues its review of the Section 301 tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on the basis of China’s policies in the area of intellectual property, technology transfer, and innovation, a group of seven Democratic Senators, led by Sherrod Brown

In a letter to Biden administration trade officials last week, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and several of her House of Representatives colleagues pressed for more action to limit imports of Chinese automobiles into the U.S. market.

Last week, several Democratic Senators weighed in on a recently filed Section 301 petition, calling on the Biden Administration "to investigate China’s unfair trade practices in commercial shipbuilding that undermine American workers and jeopardize our national security."

Yesterday, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) called for the U.S. "to ban Chinese-made electric vehicles to protect Ohio autoworkers, and to combat the economic and national security threats posed by Chinese automakers."

Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, along with a bipartisan group of colleagues, have written to the Biden administration calling for "immediate action to counter the malign