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Today President Bind announced an increase in tariffs on a number of Chinese imports,

including electric vehicles, solar cells, semiconductors, and advanced batteries.

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President Biden said the new tariffs, including 100% tariffs on electric vehicles and 25 percent on EV batteries are meant to

protect American industries from imports that are unfairly subsidized by

Beijing. The president is also keeping tariffs on more than $300 billion worth of Chinese goods

that were put in place by president Trump. Even though four years ago, Biden criticized

those tariffs as taxes on American consumers. At one point he had promised to

repeal them but now there's bipartisan consensus to increase American capacity of

key products like semiconductors and to protect US industries from what both parties say

is China's strategy of dumping excess product at unfairly low prices in order to achieve

market dominance.

Mara Liason, NPR News. in order to achieve market dominance.

Maraleison, NPR News, the White House.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s independent presidential campaign says it has submitted enough

signatures to be on the ballot in Texas this November.

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