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.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.

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,