Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said that the Biden administration’s plan to quadruple tariffs on imported Chinese electric vehicles to over 100% in August is crucial to the health of the U.S. auto sector.

“We need to have that industry here,” Granholm said in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday. “If we didn’t do that, we would just be ceding the entire territory to China like we saw happen with solar panels.”

She added that China’s “plan is very aggressive on industrial policy and we had done nothing and now we are doing something about it.”

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