“One of the greatest threats to a strong U.S. transportation manufacturing sector is the rise of predatory Chinese state-owned and -supported enterprises (SOEs), which rely on government-subsidized, below-market pricing to drive legitimate competitors out of business,” DeFazio said. “Through Section 7613 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 … Congress sought to address this concern by prohibiting the use of federal transit funds to purchase rolling stock from SOEs in most cases. Unfortunately, the law also provides four transit agencies with a permanent exemption to those protections.
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