President Biden puts on a United Auto Workers t-shirt in Belvidere, Ill. on Nov. 9, 2023. Biden on Tuesday is announcing new tariffs on imports of Chinese goods, including electric vehicles.President Biden will slap tariffs on $18 billion of imports of goods from China including electric vehicles, semiconductors, and medical products to protect U.S. workers and companies in the strategic sectors and punish China for unfair trade practices.
The move comes as Biden pushes forward to implement three pieces of legislation that contain hundreds of billions of subsidies to boost the domestic manufacturing and clean energy sectors — and ahead of a presidential election where trade and jobs will again be an issue.U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai delivers remarks during a Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in San Francisco on Nov. 14, 2023.
Biden's team began reviewing those tariffs when he took office, and now has decided to keep them in place — though it is working on an exclusion process for machinery used by domestic manufacturers, particular in the solar industry. The White House has tried to distinguish its strategy from Trump's approach. It points to comments made by Trump in rallies and interviews that he would broaden tariffs on all imported goods, including