WASHINGTON (TNND) — A group that represents American automakers requested that Congress permanently ban cars made from China.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation president said that the manufacturing agency in China is “rooted in a well-documented pattern of unfair trade, subsidies, intellectual property theft and surveillance.”
John Bozzella, the president, requested to talk to leaders in the Senate and the House on the matter, according to The Hill newspaper.
“Right now, Chinese automakers are dumping subsidized vehicles with connected software and hardware around the world,” he wrote in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Earlier this year, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a bill that would ban companies with over 15% Chinese leadership from selling cars in the U.S.
Bozzella said that he wanted details about the policy to be correct.
“Enacting a permanent ban on Chinese vehicles and high-risk hardware and software in the 119th Congress will send a clear and bipartisan message that China’s strategy to dominate global automotive manufacturing will be met with a national security policy response from the American government,” the letter concluded.