美国总统唐纳德·特朗普已宣布进口外国制造的工厂机器人构成国家安全威胁——下令与贸易伙伴展开新谈判，同时保留未来对这类机器人进口征收新关税的可能性。
President Donald Trump has declared the imports of foreign-made factory robots to be a national security threat—ordering new US negotiations with trading partners while holding out the possibility of imposing new tariffs on such robot imports in the future.
特朗普于10月28日发布的总统公告，标志着政府对进口工业机器人的审查力度加大，这可能会使依赖此类机器人的美国大型企业的制造运营变得复杂。这些公司包括底特律车企通用汽车和福特汽车、电动汽车制造商特斯拉，以及航空航天和国防巨头波音和洛克希德·马丁。
Issued on October 28, Trump’s presidential proclamation represents heightened government scrutiny of foreign-made industrial robots that could complicate the manufacturing operations of major US corporations that rely on such robots. Those companies include Detroit automakers General Motors and Ford, electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, and aerospace and defense giants like Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
特朗普的公告称，工业机器人和机械对于生产美国军事武器系统至关重要，也是美国经济所有关键基础设施部门背后的“驱动力”。公告引用美国商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克主导的一项调查称，此类机器人的美国进口“对美国工业基础构成风险，并威胁美国在一个日益关乎国家安全的领域的长期竞争力”。
Trump’s proclamation describes industrial robots and machinery as being crucial for producing US military weapon systems along with representing a “driving force” behind all critical infrastructure sectors within the US economy. The proclamation cites an investigation under US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick as having found that US imports of such robots “pose risks to the United States industrial base and threatens the long-term competitiveness of the United States in a sector that is increasingly vital to national security.”