The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee is set to consider bipartisan legislation to toughen a U.S. government ban on Chinese automakers entering the American market, but some provisions remain under debate ahead of ​an expected vote Wednesday. Republican Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio and Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan ​proposed legislation in April to codify a regulation imposed by the Biden administration that ⁠effectively bans all Chinese automakers from selling passenger vehicles in the U.S. and takes other steps to ​prevent China from entering the U.S. light-duty market. “We’re preventing an absolute, total, and complete destruction of our industrial ​base,” Moreno said in an interview. “I think we landed a really good place… the bill has gone through many, many, many iterations of feedback.”

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