Joe Biden.
President Joe Biden.
  • The White House has announced it will impose tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese goods.
  • The new measures target Chinese electric vehicles, with those tariffs rising from 25% to 100%. 
  • Fears that a wave of cheap Chinese EVs could upend the US market are growing.

Joe Biden has hiked tariffs on Chinese electric cars as he looks to protect the US auto industry from a wave of cheap vehicles.