Joe Biden’s New EV Tariffs Aren’t Enough to Save U.S. Manufacturers

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Joe Biden’s New EV Tariffs Aren’t Enough to Save U.S. Manufacturers

Tariffs and other steps to protect America’s domestic market might help U.S. manufacturers survive a tidal wave of imported products from China’s subsidized and over-developed manufacturing sector. What they cannot do alone is to make American products more competitive in other places.

About the Author: Paul J. Saunders 

Paul J. Saunders is President of the Center for the National Interest and a member of its board of directors. His expertise spans U.S. foreign and security policy, energy security and climate change, U.S.-Russia relations and Russian foreign policy, and U.S. relations with Japan and South Korea. Saunders is a Senior Advisor at Energy Innovation Reform Project, where he served as President from 2019 to 2024. He has been a member of EIRP’s board of directors since 2013 and served as chairman from 2014 to 2019. At EIRP, Saunders has focused on the collision between great power competition and the energy transition, including such issues as energy security, energy technology competition, and climate policy in a divided world.

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