Sollte Kanada seinen 100-prozentigen Zoll auf chinesische Elektrofahrzeuge streichen?
https://www.readthelevel.ca/news/national/should-canada-drop-the-100-tariff-on-chinese-evs
Sollte Kanada seinen 100-prozentigen Zoll auf chinesische Elektrofahrzeuge streichen?
https://www.readthelevel.ca/news/national/should-canada-drop-the-100-tariff-on-chinese-evs
16 Kommentare
Now more than ever, it’s hard not to see a reason to at least negotiate somewhat with this. The US cars should be tariffed right out of this country if they move production away and some have already started. Might as well replace their giant gas guzzling trash with EVs
I support it the move, but I will say it’s very interesting seeing this consent manufacturing happen in real time in the form of more and more outlets „just asking a question“ which is making me feel like we’ll see this become a political possibility into an inevitability in a few years time at most
Not that I think this is the sole or even main cause of it, but I feel like we saw it happen with the mood change on immigration with years of „are people souring on immigration?“ editorial barrages until they could finally just say „Canadians are sick of immigration rates. Now what?“
Maybe this is downstream of public opinion and not vice versa and is more organic than I think, who knows
No. Tariff them even harder.
China’s government is horrific and depending on them for even more stuff is a terrible idea.
Yes. For no other reason than to generate interest in a technology that could reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Yes, fossil fuels are an important export for Canada but they aren’t going anywhere soon. So in the meantime let’s start to make some moves towards a different type of energy for cars.
Have never understood the opposition to deepening our trade relationship with China. There’s certainly no moral argument to be made. China is a more ethical nation than the United States by any measure.
As long as we’re building cars here I think we should keep tariffing them. We simply can’t compete with China.
If China was building factories here, then perhaps I wouldn’t be such a stickler.
Right now it’s impossible to compete with China. Companies will sell products just above cost, they have a very cheap labour force of 330 million (8 Canadas), the government is so engraned in their industry it’s insane.
If we had our own crown that were given free steel factories, free gas / coal plants, free glass, all of the money they need from government coffers, ultra cheap labour with little to no labour protections, safety standards, etc. Then yeah sure, we can compete on their level and end their tariffs.
Yes and no.
I dont think going from 100% to 0% is going to be healthy.
However I would agree with lowering it significantly to 20% or less, and that money is used as a dedicated fund to establish a supply chain to produce their EVs here in Canada, with the condition that they must hire at least 80% Canadians for both workforce and payroll.
This is our chance to get them to establish their base here in Canada instead of the US: because it is likely that in a decade, eventually the US will also have to accept the existence of Chinese EVs, and we will already have the supply line ready to sell cars to the American market.
In fact I can see Americans crossing the border to get their hands onto cheap EVs.
I want solutions that can help Canada and the Ontario auto sector… like a final assembly line here in Canada for Chinese EVs? I admit to not knowing enough, but the death knoll for Canada’s auto manufacturing sector is looming based on Trump and Lutnik’s words.
A few thoughts:
* From a consumer perspective: Hell yes. We spend all this time telling Americans they’re paying the tariffs they’ve applied to our goods. Well, we’re paying the tariffs on Chinese EVs.
* From a country perspective: Still yes. We’re learning in real time what happens when you have too many eggs in one basket.
* Ideally, we can reach some agreement where some of these EVs are manufactured in Ontario.
What would Canada gain by doing this? Why would the feds undermine our domestic manufacturing industry that is being hurt by Trump’s tariffs?
Drop the tariff. Trump will prohibit these cars to even cross the border for Canadian tourists so the interest in these cars will naturally drop protecting our industry and China will not blame us.
We should. It will have repercussions on our auto industry but our auto industry is dying anyways. Even if the tariffs are dropped the US auto industry is completely uncompetitive and will be destroyed by Chinese cars let alone Japanese, Korean and European cars
I think there should be some even price footing, given that we already have foreign manufactures producing and investing in Canada; creating good paying jobs. In my opinion a 100% tax is at the behest of a U.S. request, and doesn’t reflect industry production. The U.S. is showing us their bully side, we’ve known all along of this eventuality, we have what the world wants, and they will come for it.
We can do better, but is it too soon to commit totally to EV’s? Canada should entertain a ‚world car‘.
I feel like it’s the right move for hitting environmental goals, but like others have pointed out maybe going right to 0% is bad policy if we can coax out some additional economic benefits as well.
Canadian auto industry has been killed by Trump. Canada has nothing left to protect. Drop the tariffs on China and put the 100% tariffs on American made cars
Can we cut a deal to have some of their ev production here so jobs lost from USA auto makers can be somewhat saved?