‘It’s Cheating’: Biden Champions China Tariffs Among Union Workers

Published on May 14, 2024

President Joe Biden stood before a crowd of America’s union workers in the Rose Garden on May 14 and defended the massive increase in tariffs just announced on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) and other products. “American workers can outwork and out-compete anyone as long as the competition is fair,” he said. “For too long, it hasn’t been fair.” To the various trades represented before him, including auto workers, IBEW, steel workers, AFL-CIO, and sheet metal workers, he describe those unfair trade practices that he credited with hurting American workers. The price of Chinese products, from aluminum, semiconductors, and electric vehicles to critical health equipment, has been “unfairly low” because Chinese companies don’t need to worry about profit, he said....

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