WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - Three Senate Democrats

on Thursday urged the Biden administration to hike import

tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to address national

security risks, the latest push by lawmakers to protect the U.S.

auto sector.

"Allowing heavily subsidized Chinese vehicles to enter the

U.S. marketplace would endanger American automotive

manufacturing," said the letter from Senators Gary Peters and

Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Sherrod Brown of Ohio seen by

Reuters. "Artificially low-priced Chinese EVs flooding the U.S.

would cost thousands of American jobs and endanger the survival

of the U.S. automotive industry as a whole."