Senate Democrats urge Biden administration to hike tariffs on Chinese EVs

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - Three Senate Democrats on Thursday urged the Biden administration to hike import tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to address national security risks, the latest push by lawmakers to protect the U.S. auto sector.

"Allowing heavily subsidized Chinese vehicles to enter the U.S. marketplace would endanger American automotive manufacturing," said the letter from Senators Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Sherrod Brown of Ohio seen by Reuters. "Artificially low-priced Chinese EVs flooding the U.S. would cost thousands of American jobs and endanger the survival of the U.S. automotive industry as a whole." (Reporting by David Shepardson)