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Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

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Post by echelon »

alemanek wrote: post #38
Jeff_Brown wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a country with 42 million inhabitants this doesn't seem like a big change even for canada, let alone for the global economy.

It’s just the beginning is my guess. If BYD or CATL commits to a factory /assembly in Canada I would expect limits to be raised on this as progress is made. Or if this goes well we could see limits raised as China drops Canadian product tariffs further.

The current (or next) admin would take Alberta and Saskatchewan. They'll propose that the residents secede from Canada and join the US.

There's probably enough political willpower in these provinces and money (paid by the US) to turn this into a real movement.

And from there, Yukon and the Northwest Territories are easy next dominoes.

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Post by lovich »

adamiscool8 wrote: post #167
fbelzile wrote: post #148

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It can, and likely was, both.

It’s a good thing Canada waited for China to resolve all these issues before swinging open our market doors to them.

We threatened to annex them with the 51st state bullshit.

If I was in Canadas position, I’d prefer trading with the guy with shitty practices over the guy actively threatening my sovereignty.

I don’t get the indignation you’re expressing. Do you work with people in your personal life after they threaten your existence?

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Post by mekdoonggi »

bahmboo wrote: post #204
alemanek wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s just the beginning is my guess. If BYD or CATL commits to a factory /assembly in Canada I would expect limits to be raised on this as progress is made. Or if this goes well we could see limits raised as China drops Canadian product tariffs further.

My gut reaction is there is no way China is setting up vehicle manufacturing or assembly in Canada because the American President would go absolutely nuts. Canada is increasing ties and joint ventures with Canada but manufacturing would be a bridge too far for our little man in the White House.

Maybe Canada inks a deal to allow Mexican manufactured Chinese EV's?

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Post by epolanski »

Jeff_Brown wrote: post #17
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…

In a country with 42 million inhabitants this doesn't seem like a big change even for canada, let alone for the global economy.

Wait till Canadians find out how good Chinese cars for their price.

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Post by rjrjrjrj »

klondike_klive wrote: post #185
bluGill wrote: post #107

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

No city ever builds transit infrastructure to tempt people out of their cars, they make the experience of driving shittier and shittier to force people off the road, all the while lambasting drivers for making the city dirty and dangerous.

The experience of driving in cities is inherently shittier as cities get larger.

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Post by choppypoofart »

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.

As an American I'm rooting for everyone else these days. Good for Canada. I hope the EU builds stronger trade with China too and America gets left in the cold to whither and die. Trump, Vance, Miller, Noem, Musk, Bezos all of them just forgotten about and completely irrelevant to the rest of the world.

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Post by epolanski »

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…

Anybody who knows what a huge market US is, filled with tons of millions of people that spend big, even when financially unsound.

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Post by echelon »

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 provinces, and Trump is going to offer money to push it. If that happens, Yukon and the Northwest Territories are next.

(Side note: these are Republican voters, which gives Republicans the Senate for years to come.)

Venezuela wasn't about drugs or oil, it was about China. And it wasn't Trump's thing, it was the career DoD folks. (Venezuela is within medium-range missile range of 50% of US oil refineries. The US doesn't want foreign basing there or in Cuba.)

The DoD is pushing Greenland too as it'll be a centerpiece of Arctic shipping in the coming century. And Cuba, as it's both extremely close to CONUS and a choke point for the gulf.

You can see the plays happening if you watch. The Chinese-owned Panama Ports Company being forcibly sold to BlackRock, the increasing trade and diplomatic ties between China and South American countries, etc.

My bet is that a Democratic president would continue this policy, just with less rudeness and more "cooperation". The Department of Defense -- apolitically -- doesn't want China to have the US within arms reach.

Trump is going to try to speed run it, though.

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edit: downvotes rate limit my account, so I can't respond.

> I would love to hear how you think Trump will manage to get Alberta and Saskatchewan to become US states within this century.

It's going to nucleate from within Alberta and Saskatchewan.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11615147/alberta-separatists-prai...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_separatism

This has been spoken about for years, but look at how much the conversation is starting to come back up recently:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/alberta-primetime/article/al...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-separation-po...

I see a dozen other articles about this published in the last week.

If Trump adds fuel to this fire, it's going to take over the headlines. The DoD is definitely whispering it into his ear.

Also, the downvotes are silly. I'm not advocating for this. I'm just pointing out what the US is doing and why it thinks this way.

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