No Cheap Chinese Cars for Canada

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I'm Canadian and approve of this action. That being said, maybe a 5 year plan should be implemented. Namely, give the established domestic EV manufacturers 5 years to start producing some smaller lower cost vehicles competitive with the Chinese ones. If the fail to respond then lower the tariffs and open the floodgates.

Even then I would probably never buy a Chinese made vehicle as I don't want to support a dictatorship.
 
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Paul K said:
Even then I would probably never buy a Chinese made vehicle as I don't want to support a dictatorship.
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I applaud your thinking. However, Walmart has shown that many folks don't think like you or me.

The Chinese have a too much capacity, and it's not going away in five years. As such, I doubt few if anybody is making money in China so the only way to make any money is to export, and flood the market with cheaper cars.

Whether five years is enough to save local manufacturing, I don't know. It would certainly put the fear of God in the local manufacturing.

I know I don't want the Chinese to put the screws to us should we lose our local manufacturing due Chinese dumping.
 
The thing too, with China, is that they are very good and efficient with manufacturing which gives them a big edge. And they are not hampered with regulations and expensive labour like we have here. Why do you think that Apple (and others) do all their manufacturing in China? Why doesn't the govt apply tariffs to them? The reason plain and simple is that there is no way those phones could be manufactured cheap domestically. And govts don't want to risk the wrath of consumers if they put tariffs on that.
 
Chinese-designed cars and EVs have been available here in NZ for a few years, attracting no more tax than any other domestically-sourced or imported products or services ... which is 15%.

I'm not hearing of any major problems with these EVs but the more frequent complaints revolve around unfinished software, smartphone connectivity, paint quality and surface rust. All of these seem easily correctable to a manufacturer that's serious about their goals.

I sat inside a BYD Seal a few weeks ago and the quality of the interior was just amazing. Weird but amazing. And I'm the prospective customer thumping on the dash and trying to bend interior fittings in an effort to find where they cheaped-out. But I found nothing out of place, it was all top-notch.

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