> Remove the 100% on Chinese EV's, but impose 100% on Tesla no matter where it comes from.
Have them stop buttressing a protectionist scheme and let their citizen get access to affordable EV from companies who care about making affordable ones.
As a Canadian, I prefer China to the US simply because China isn’t threatening to annex us. I hope we will strike a deal with China for military containment of our enemy, the US.
In 2023, China's export to Canada was 45.1 billion dollars.
China's export to the US was 501 billion dollars.
So why is the US propping up China's authoritarian dictatorship? Is this "Only the US gets to prop up dictators in the world, Canada should just follow orders!" kind of deal?
China may be an issue and I am not downplaying that. But: we live in one planet, and the tarrifs on Chinese EVs is absolutely slowing down adoption for the sake of propping up legacy automakers who couldn’t be bothered to be serious about EVs.
Canada has no domestic car manufacturers. It has branch plants from several companies, but that’s all they are, branch plants. All the tarrifs do is protect the interests of other countries, one of which is getting increasingly hostile to it’s northern neighbor.
Completely agree that dropping the tariffs on Chinese EVs instead would be the sensible move. Turning EVs into a culture war effigy was a horrible development for the future of the planet when the right did it, and it's no different now that the left is getting in on it. We have a technology that would be a key part of switching to clean energy, and should be doing everything possible to embrace it, but the political class has turned it into a football for their culture war game instead. Depressing stuff.
That would be totally amazing for Canadians, they are facing rising prices in so many things. The Chinese cars are half the price. I saw that BYD expects to sell 100k vehicles into Mexico this year, that's double the 50k they sold last year.
The long range PHEVs china has been building would also be ideal for Canada. Plenty of daily range even in winter and no range or infrastructure anxiety when you need more distance.
I’d make sure a tariff on Tesla includes both parts on service so that existing owners aren’t benefitting from increased residual value. (I’d expect that the residual value would be offset given appropriately higher maintenance costs.)
Because you care about people? What, should we just give up on people addicted to drugs for example? Or should we help save them from their bad decision to use dangerous drugs?
I believe parent-poster intended something more like: "The subset of Americans who opposed the nonsense."
The purpose of the deterrent pain response is ultimately to change American policy, and that means influencing people whose positions can changed by it into a positive direction.
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> Remove the 100% on Chinese EV's, but impose 100% on Tesla no matter where it comes from.
Have them stop buttressing a protectionist scheme and let their citizen get access to affordable EV from companies who care about making affordable ones.
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China's export to the US was 501 billion dollars.
So why is the US propping up China's authoritarian dictatorship? Is this "Only the US gets to prop up dictators in the world, Canada should just follow orders!" kind of deal?
Canada has no domestic car manufacturers. It has branch plants from several companies, but that’s all they are, branch plants. All the tarrifs do is protect the interests of other countries, one of which is getting increasingly hostile to it’s northern neighbor.
If you want allies in supporting democracy and human rights, the obvious approach is to not attack said allies.
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The purpose of the deterrent pain response is ultimately to change American policy, and that means influencing people whose positions can changed by it into a positive direction.