Why did Canada impose a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs a few months ago?
Australia didn’t.
Canada is attempting to grow its own domestic EV supply chain in order to become the world leader in EV battery production. It is already out competing China thanks to it’s large natural resource supply and developed mining and refining industries.
The general idea is that Canada doesn’t want to be China’s supplier of raw materials and helping them become the world’s supplier of EV batteries when Canada could be that supplier.
Canadian car companies had years, arguably decades, to try EVs.
Do you think a 100% tariff won’t disincentivize competitiveness?
How hard is it to make batteries?
Why would they be so uncompetitive compared to the Chinese ones?
How hard is it to make batteries?
Why are you asking Lemmy instead of google? Or even a genAI chatbot?
Canada doesn’t want to be China’s supplier of raw materials and helping them become the world’s supplier of EV batteries when Canada could be that supplier.
A shame we don’t do that with any of our other resources.
It’s never too late to pick up a good habit.
Realistically, our terrible productivity and China’s lax environmental/safety standards seem like they’re gonna doom this effort, but I’m all for trying.
Instead of tariffs, why not simply ban Chinese products that aren’t up to standards?
It feels like OP based the post title off something other than the video they shared…
Why did you feel the need to editorialise the headline so much? I know it’s not a requirement on this sub, but that’s usually so posters can provide better context
There’s a lot of noise on TikTok about Canada and Mexico feuding about statements said by Ford and Sheinbaum.
