President eyes hiking tariffs amid a push for blue-collar votes on a visit to Pittsburgh, the 'Steel City', as China boosts steel and car exports

With Japanese firms now wary about investing in China, the US's economic resilience has proven too strong to ignore

White House trade chief Katherine Tai will tell lawmakers the administration is even looking at reintroducing some Trump-era tariffs on Chinese imports

While rivals claim to be further ahead in the race to develop the next generation of batteries, Nissan has hinted it’s poised to make the great leap forward sooner

Elon Musk’s firm has seen its stock fall by about 31% so far this year with customers slow to transition away from fossil-fuelled motors

Scholz pressed his case for an open and fair European market for Chinese cars but warned against dumping, overproduction and intellectual property infringements

A Chinese industry body chief said Brussels’ investigation was ‘tainted’ and stacked against his country’s automakers

Lawmaker Sherrod Brown, who has also demanded steep tariffs on Chinese EVs, says they are a threat to American automakers

The German automaker is also planning to roll out two new models as part of its tie-up with Chinese firm Xpeng

China says excess capacity claim is groundless and should be viewed from a global perspective and that its trade in key green sectors is based on innovation and complete supply lines

Chinese firms have ordered 47 ships, including car carriers, to cut export costs. Meanwhile, idle car factories are being shut amid huge industry changes; only two local carmakers out of about 100 are now said to be profitable

Chinese EV sales totalled 1.03 million in the first quarter of the year but it was the slowest quarterly growth since the second quarter of 2023