American automakers and other related domestic industries are urging President Donald Trump not to agree to open up the U.S. auto market to China when he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week. 

Tough data-security rules on China made cars and high tariffs on its electric vehicles prevent manufacturers in the Communist-run country from competing in the U.S. auto market. 

Automakers and their suppliers, steel producers, and unions argue that China's highly subsidized and massive auto industry would allow the Asian country to sell cars far below what U.S. automakers could, Reuters reported. 

In January, Trump spoke favorably to the Detroit Economic Club about granting China access to the U.S. market. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., was at the forum and has been asking Trump not to make a deal with Xi that would allow Chinese investment in the U.S. auto sector. 

Slotkin was joined by Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, on the bipartisan Their Connected Vehicle Security Act, which would codify rules enacted by former President Joe Biden that effectively banned Chinese vehicles. The bill would make the reversal of Biden's rules much more difficult, on top of banning industry partnerships with China. 

Attached to a transportation spending bill, the measure could pass this year, Congressional aides told Reuters.