Senators Urge Trump to Ban Chinese Cars Ahead of Beijing Trip

The lawmakers asked the president to reconsider his statement welcoming Chinese carmakers to the United States if they created jobs.

BYD electric cars and other car brands for export are stacked at the Taicang port in Suzhou, in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, on April 7, 2025. AFP/Getty Images

Three U.S. senators are asking President Donald Trump to prohibit Chinese automakers from opening plants in the United States, ahead of the president’s trip to Beijing for a bilateral meeting next month.

“Allowing automakers headquartered in China, which operate with backing from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), to build and sell vehicles in the United States would have far-reaching consequences for our economic and national security,” the lawmakers wrote in an April 3 letter to the president.