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Shared values do have meaning and an importance. They used to mean a fair bit especially when you needed to fight an aggressor.
So, out of the 2 countries situated north of Mexico, whose leader has taken a huge deviation from these "shared values"?
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Everyone knows. But America is has made it very clear it has no allies, this means every middle power is near obligated to re-position themselves to be roughly in the middle between the two super-powers.
This ignores physical geographical reality.
"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…
In a country with 42 million inhabitants this doesn't seem like a big change even for canada, let alone for the global economy.
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.
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neither does America, and they're much closer and dangerous to us at this time.
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I mean, China's perspective on at least one of your examples is that it saved North Korea from decades-long rule by succession of military dictatorships that ruled in South Korea. Which isn't entirely unfair.
Good. This could force Tesla's hand to make super cheap EV. Musk and crew know how to make cheap stuff - they've chosen high margin for Tesla however.
I don't think it will change anything for Tesla, unless it lowers their costs through lowered tariffs somehow. TBH, Tesla is in a tough position with their EVs in NA. They can't really build a cheap enough crossover/suv to compete directly with ICE RAV4, and virtually anything they do at >$50k would negatively impact their existing product sales. The base Model 3/Y are too expensive compared to ICE and have met tepid…
Doesn't the Model Y start at 40K? That's more expensive than the base model RAV4, but the Tesla is probably aimed at a slightly different market segment too. My guess is they could compete head-to-head on price if they needed to, but they don't think the math works out better that direction yet.
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No. Tarriffs aside this would be the problem: https://www.cbp.gov/trade/basic-import-export/importing-car > As a general rule, motor vehicles less than 25 years old must comply with all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) in order to be imported permanently into the United States. Without homologation there is 0 chance you'd be able to import and register one of these.
How did Ford's CEO do it?