End ‘wholesale restrictions’ on Chinese EVs in US, experts say

The United States should engage with Chinese carmakers and battery manufacturers “strategically”, using targeted safeguards instead of the current “wholesale restrictions”, which could lead US carmakers to lose global market share, according to experts.“We need to consider strategic partnerships,” said John Helveston, an associate professor at George Washington University, during a discussion on Tuesday.“So not just wholesale restrictions, but look at some of the best opportunities and let automakers pursue things like licensing agreements and other agreements with some targeted safeguards,” he added.Sourabh Gupta, resident senior fellow at the Institute for China-America Studies, described the practice of protectionism in a globally scaled and competitive market as “an act of severe self-harm”.