General Motors and Ford Motor would need to stop importing vehicles to the U.S. from China under a proposed rule cracking down on Chinese software and hardware, a U.S. Commerce Department official told Reuters Monday.

The move comes as part of the Biden administration's broad approach to safeguarding the US auto sector from what it considers China's unfair trade actions.

Chinese cars aren't common on American roads and the federal government wants to keep it that way. The White House announced in a statement Monday that a proposed Commerce Department rule will ban the sale or import of connected vehicles with software or certain components from "countries of concern,

General Motors and Ford Motor would need to stop exporting vehicles from China to the United States under a proposed rule cracking down on Chinese software and hardware, a Commerce Department official told Reuters Monday.