![]() ![]() automakers GM, Ford, and Stellantis, are largely consumer-focused rather than manufacturing-based. He noted that Biden’s attempt to prop up U.S. He’s got to sell the clean energy transition as benefiting American workers,” Bledsoe told Josh.Ĭonsumer-based incentives: David Goldwyn, an international energy consultant who served as the State Department’s special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs, contended Biden will be open to “creative suggestions” on achieving his domestic goals without doing “serious damage” to Canadian or Mexican automobile manufacturing base. “That may end up conflicting with international relations goals, especially around Made in America provisions in the reconciliation bill. “Biden’s priorities right now are the domestic economy,” said Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House climate change adviser, now with the Progressive Policy Institute. “We’re going to make sure that these jobs end up in Michigan, not halfway around the world,” Biden said yesterday while visiting a General Motors plant retooled to manufacture electric trucks and SUVs. Vehicle parts exported to Canada and Mexico typically return to the U.S. automakers and their workers an inside track at taking the burgeoning EV market from China, despite the risk that it could threaten the integrated North American supply chain that has defined the traditional auto manufacturing sector. “Some questions on discriminaton could come up.”īiden’s priorities are clear: The president is unlikely to back down from his push to give U.S. ![]() “It’s not clear those are legal under trade law,” Kevin Book, managing director of ClearView Energy Partners, told Josh. ![]() They could retaliate with tariffs or other trade restrictions under the USMCA, the updated North American trade agreement. made vehicles in their spending bill violate international trade rules. Senior officials in Canada and Mexico have suggested Biden and Democrats’ made-in-America rules and enhanced electric-vehicle credits for union-built U.S. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue!ĬANADA AND MEXICO AGAINST BIDEN PLAN: President Joe Biden has a difficult task today handling opposition from Canada and Mexico, America’s two largest trading partners, to his push to promote U.S. Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with what's going on in Washington. ![]()
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