STEVE INSKEEP, host: NPR's business news starts with GM and the trouble with China.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: This is reportedly part of General Motors' restructuring plan. The giant company - or should we say the once-giant company - is preparing to import cars from its plants in China and sell them to American consumers. That's according to the Wall Street Journal as well as China media reports, although GM itself will not confirm it. The car maker is already planning to eliminate more jobs in the United States, so now autoworkers and their union are not too happy about plans to import foreign cars made with foreign labor. The union has sent a letter to Congress opposing plans to important cars from overseas.
According to news reports, General Motors plans to import Chinese-made vehicles to the U.S. The company will neither confirm nor deny the reports. With GM dependent on government loans, the UAW describes GM's plan to import cars as "using taxpayer money to subsidize U.S. job losses."