Bipartisan Lawmakers Call on Biden Administration for Stricter Tariffs on Chinese Drones

The lawmakers suggest that the current 25 percent tariff is inadequate to protect the domestic drone makers.

A new DJI Mavic Zoom drone flies during a product launch event at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City on Aug. 23, 2018. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

A group of bipartisan lawmakers have called on the Biden administration to take swift action on Chinese-made drones to protect the domestic drone market.

In a letter dated March 19 to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, the lawmakers raised concerns over the Chinese regime’s unfair trade actions that allow Chinese drone manufacturers to dominate the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) U.S. market as well as posing national security threats.