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Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

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Re: Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

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Post by saati »

boringg wrote: post #151
footy wrote: post #23

Good. Carney also remarked our relationship with China is now more predictable with our relationship with the states (wild shade coming from him) just to really make it clear to certain parties why this is happening. Cheaper car options in this country will be nice, and I say this as a certified car hater who's yet to own one despite pushing 40.

Who wants to be a trade partner with the US these days? I honestly ask people who aren't fully indoctrinated or already have ties established? Its a dependency that I have to think almost all countries/businesses are evaluating. How do you do business and set up long term supply chains in a country can't trust that the economic policy of today exists in 3 months, they are actively trying to undermine their currency a…

It's a bit more than a quarter (25.6%) of the whole world's GDP, so pretty much everyone.

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Post by bluGill »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #220
bluGill wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Massive trucks are useful for construction. You should get better transit so less people have cars.

I wish I could examine your brain to understand how you think "Massive trucks are useful for construction" is a good counterargument to people using them as daily drivers.

Transit is the alternanive for daily drivers not cars.

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Post by taneliv »

standardUser wrote: post #277
rootusrootus wrote: post #192

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Yes, BYD is tightly intertwined with the CCP and gets a lot of subsidies, grants, favorable loans, etc.

Yes, following an almost cookie-cutter-like pattern of emerging economies protecting and supporting their auto industries.

I feel like that is not specific to emerging economies.

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Post by pyrolistical »

ortusdux wrote: post #6

"Canada has agreed to allow an annual quota of 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into the country at the tariff rate of just 6.1%" https://electricautonomy.ca/data-trackers/ev-sales-data/2025... "Canada recorded 45,366 new zero-emission vehicle registrations in Q3 2025, accounting for 9.4 per cent of all new vehicle registrations in the quarter, according to the latest report from Statistics Canada." "Of the total, 26…

How are plugin hybrids considered zero emission?

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Post by hnthrowaway0315 »

echelon wrote: post #230
throw0101d wrote: post #156

A Canadian satire site has the headline "Canada chooses lawful evil over chaotic evil": * https://thebeaverton.com/2026/01/canada-chooses-lawful-evil-... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragon... Edit: A comment in /r/canada: > TBF I would much rather work for Lex Luthor than The Joker if I had to choose one.

I'm really into geopolitics, and it's clear to see what's happening from the US side. America still wants to play hegemon, but since Bretton Woods 2.0 didn't happen, they're going to lock up the entire North and South American continents from Chinese and Russian influence. And it'll be fierce. The next salvo is going to be US statehood for Alberta and Saskatchewan. There is already partisan support within those provi…

I kinda agree with you. The US policy won't change much. It is a set policy but not very well executed, simply because such a policy is not in the interest of existing power base, so someone new but crude has to be elected, and that's why he got elected not once, but TWICE.

My understanding is that US is going to shrink back a bit, takes care of its neighbours first, but keep its probing bases intact, so that it can slash some costs and be more flexible in next decades. China is going to reluctantly expand its power base gradually -- but I think it's going to be a slow expansion because any rapid one would either fail, or create a new power group within China, that may threaten the existing players.

Not sure about EU though, it better gear up quickly.

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Post by quickthrowman »

anvuong wrote: post #243
pjc50 wrote: post #234

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That's basically it. The Chinese government views the rest of the world through Hobbesian self interest, but in the late 20th century financial way. They want your money, but lawfully. The US has turned into something much more vindictive and unpredictable, including threatening to invade Canada.

Lawfully? How many IPs have they stolen from universities and companies across the world?

Probably around the same amount of IP that US citizens stole from the UK in the 19th century. We stole loads of inventions during the Industrial Revolution.

Does it surprise you to find out that a lot of old money families in the US made their money smuggling opium and other similarly unethical things? We are a nation of crooks and thieves and always have been.

I ask anyone reading this comment to please study history more frequently, it will help you understand the world better.

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Post by bluGill »

footy wrote: post #136
bluGill wrote: post #107

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Massive trucks are useful for construction. You should get better transit so less people have cars.

Ah yes, trucks with empty beds are clearly being used for construction. Not like pavement princesses are a thing.

So get those people on transit and leave trucks to people who use them as trucks.

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Post by bluGill »

justonceokay wrote: post #118
bluGill wrote: post #93

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The expensive cars sell well in the us - customers are not that price inelastic. Those who are prefer a used car with all the high priced features of 5 years ago to a new car with no options

Agreed, that’s exactly what i did. But I wonder how much of that culture is because the new cheap Chinese cars aren’t here. If all you have in town is a target, that’s where people will shop. If you open up a goodwill there might be some handwringing and “I would never” rhetoric. But many people will go to the goodwill even if they don’t admit it.

Is the cheap car better? I don't mind an old car, and luxury cars bought today are likely to last decades.

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Post by butisaidsudo »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #209
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #205

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I've always gotten the impression that China is becoming a technological manufacturing powerhouse because of massive investment by the Chinese government, whereas America is falling behind because the government giving grants to corporations is incredibly unpopular because of the belief that the investment is just going to get pocketed by the CEO and board of directors and spent on stock buybacks rather than the deve…

Nope, you are spot on. The broad argument is "Engineers are in power in China, lawyers in America." I see the US as no different as when Boeing and McDonnell Douglas merged; everything about making and building takes a back seat to line go up. Well, you can't eat, live in, build with, or go to war with line go up. The stock market is not the economy, nor your industrial and manufacturing base. But it keeps going up,…

That book has been on my list since I heard him on this podcast: https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/chinas-quest-to-engineer-th...

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Post by LunaSea »

adamiscool8 wrote: post #120
knuppar wrote: post #101

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American citizens being shot and brutalized by a state sponsored force of masked thugs without training. Sounds pretty clandestine to me and it's happening in us soil.

Except those actions are not secret, nor illegal, nor a threat to any other country’s sovereignty?

Their actions are very illegal (extradition if American citizens, stealing property, entering without a warrant, murders, etc.).

And the US's stance and actions around Venezuela and Greenland are also both illegal and a threat to a country's sovereignty.

Tariff threats is another example.

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