Sen. Josh Hawley to introduce the Declaring Our Energy Independence from China Act.
Hawley will introduce a new bill on Tuesday called the Declaring Our Energy Independence from China Act. It would require the president to apply additional tariffs on all battery components, solar energy components and wind energy components imported from China at a 25% rate.
The president could increase the rate by 5% annually for the next five years, peaking at 50%, according to the bill.
Since former President Trump's term, the average U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports remain at approximately 19.3%, according to an estimate from the nonprofit research group Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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According to a U.S. Department of Defense report last summer, China controls most renewable energy equipment production and material supply chains.
Hawley is not the only one concerned about China dominating the U.S. energy industry. In January, a group of bipartisan senators sent a letter to Biden urging him to increase tariffs on Chinese imported solar panels.
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"By 2026, China will have enough capacity to meet annual global demand for the next ten years," Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Jon Osoff, D-Ga., Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio wrote. "This capacity is an existential threat to the U.S. solar industry and American energy security."
Last week, Hawley proposed a bill to boost the current 2.5% tariff on vehicles to 100%, effectively increasing the overall tariff on all Chinese automobile imports from 27.5% to 125%.
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on Hawley's bill.
Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
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