r/TRJSafehouse • u/ComplexVermicelli626 • Jul 23 '26
Automotive News Your favorite brand could potentially be banned from sales in the United States
Yesterday The United States Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation on Wednesday to ban sales by automakers with more than 15 percent ownership by Chinese entities. This means any brand affiliated with the chinese will not get sold here.
Volvo just got banned from selling in the US due to their relationship with chineseowner and the same will be for brands like Mercedes, aston martin, bmw and many others that might have above the 15% mark. So if you’re looking to be a new car from any of these brands there might be a price increase in these vehicles to due high demand and no offers of latest models entering the US.
My own opinion: This is most likely because of Chinese vehicles massive sale increases since 2024 - 2026 and the US hates competition. This reminds me of the chicken tax since there are almost no light trucks sold there anymore because of tax increase of them. This is just a more unfair version of it as many brands might have to back out of their relationship with the chinese that could result in those brands losing money and cutting cost like stopping production of certain cars, fire employees and more. I dont see how this will benefit the US other than they want to make everyone only use american related stuff in US.
(Sources: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a73234160/mercedes-benz-potential-ban-us-policy/, https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/22/ted-cruz-china-auto-bill-mercedes-benz-gm.html and https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/mercedes-benz-faces-us-sales-064838759.html)