拜登敦促禁止中国电动汽车，但他应该这样做吗？

俄亥俄州参议员告诉总统，中国制造的汽车对美国汽车工业构成“生存威胁”，但他忘记了特斯拉和其他西方品牌也在美国生产电动汽车

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现在就阻止他们吧，以免为时已晚。这是一位有影响力的俄亥俄州参议员在一封公开信中向总统乔·拜登发出的信息，敦促他禁止进口中国制造的电动汽车，以挽救美国汽车工业免遭毁灭。

“中国电动汽车对美国汽车业构成生存威胁，”参议院银行委员会主席、参议员谢罗德·布朗写道。“我们不能允许中国将其政府支持的欺骗行为带给美国汽车业。美国现在必须禁止中国电动汽车，并阻止大量中国政府补贴的汽车威胁俄亥俄州汽车业就业以及我们的国家和经济安全。”

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布朗声称，中国汽车制造商获得的国家补贴将使美国同行无法在价格上竞争，而且这种压力将破坏美国工人工会未来就提高工资和福利进行谈判的机会。就业担忧还不止于此，因为布朗还引用了游说团体美国制造业联盟的数据，该数据表明每一项汽车工作都支持另外 11 个工作。

美国已经制定了关税制度，使得从中国进口汽车变得昂贵，但俄亥俄州共和党参议员认为需要采取更强有力的行动。

布朗表示：“当目标是主导某个行业时，关税不足以阻止他们对美国制造业的攻击。” “相反，政府应该立即采取行动，禁止中国电动汽车，以免它们破坏美国电动汽车市场的潜力。”https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023-BYD-Seal-1024x576.jpg

除了强调中国电动汽车对美国工业构成的经济威胁，并指出欧洲即将被中国汽车淹没之外，布朗还提到了中国制造的汽车可能带来的网络安全风险，以表明美国可能发生的情况。

但他没有提及的是，包括美国特斯拉在内的许多西方品牌也在中国生产汽车。尽管特斯拉目前不向美国进口中国制造的汽车，但它确实将大量中国制造的汽车运往欧洲。Jato 最近的一项研究调查了登陆欧洲的中国制造汽车数量的增长情况，发现虽然欧洲大陆销售的五分之一的电动汽车来自中国，但其中 44%是由特斯拉和沃尔沃等西方品牌销售的。

您认为拜登总统应该禁止在美国销售中国制造的汽车，还是布朗反应过度？如果拜登真的颁布禁令，特斯拉等西方品牌是否应该获得免费通行证？发表评论并让我们知道。https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024-Tesla-Model-3-1-2-1024x576.jpg

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Biden Urged To Ban Chinese EVs, But Should He?

Ohio senator tells president that China-built cars pose ‘existential threat to American auto industry’ but forgets Tesla and other Western brands also make EVs there

by Chris Chilton

Stop them now, before it’s too late. That’s the message an influential Ohio senator sent to President Joe Biden in an open letter urging him to ban the importation of Chinese-built EVs to save the American auto industry from being wiped out.

“Chinese electric vehicles are an existential threat to the American auto industry,” wrote the chair of the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Sherrod Brown. “We cannot allow China to bring its government-backed cheating to the American auto industry. The U.S. must ban Chinese electric vehicles now, and stop a flood of Chinese government-subsidized cars that threaten Ohio auto jobs, and our national and economic security.”

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Brown claims that state subsidies the Chinese automakers receive would make it impossible for their U.S. counterparts to compete on price, and the pressure would ruin unionized American workers’ chances of negotiating pay and benefits improvements in future. And the employment worries don’t stop there because Brown also quotes figures from lobby group Alliance for American Manufacturing that suggests every single automotive job supports 11 others.

The U.S. already has a tariff system in place that makes it expensive to import a car from China, but the Republican Senator from Ohio thinks stronger action is needed.

“When the goal is to dominate a sector, tariffs are insufficient to stop their attack on American manufacturing,” Brown said. “Instead, the Administration should act now to ban Chinese EVs before they destroy the potential for the U.S. EV market.”

Beyond highlighting the economic threat Chinese EVs present to American industry, and pointing out that Europe is on the verge of being flooded with cars from China, to show what could happen in the U.S., Brown also mentions the cybersecurity risk China-built cars might pose.

But what he fails to mention is that many Western brands, including U.S.-based Tesla, also build cars in China. Although Tesla doesn’t currently import Chinese-made vehicles to America, it does bring large quantities of them to Europe. A recent Jato study looking into the rise in the number of Chinese-built cars landing in Europe found that while one in five EVs sold on the continent comes from China, 44 percent of that fifth were sold by Western brands like Tesla and Volvo.

Do you think President Biden should ban the sale of Chinese-built cars in the U.S., or is Brown overreacting? And if Biden does enact a ban, should Western brands like Tesla get a free pass? Leave a comment and let us know.