Canada proposes 100% tariffs on Tesla

https://electrek.co/2025/03/04/canada-proposes-100-tariffs-on-tesla-i-have-an-alternative-open-the-door-to-chinese-evs/

by zfg • 1 year ago

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Ancalagon• 1 year ago

Actually I love this. Saves the American people from most of the bad decisions but targets the oligarchs.

dave44202• 1 year ago

Why save the American people from their bad decision?

SirMaster• 1 year ago

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?

toomuchtodo• 1 year ago

Some are worth saving. Not all, but some.

Terr_• 1 year ago

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.

gigatexal• 1 year ago

Make it 1000%. I, too, love these targeted reprisal tariffs. Go Canada.

_aavaa_2• 1 year ago

Even better suggestion in the comments:

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.

blackeyeblitzar• 1 year ago

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yongjik• 1 year ago

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?

Marsymars3• 1 year ago

Well out of Trump, Biden, Harris and Xi Jinping, only one is actively and explicitly hostile towards Canada, and it’s not Winnie-the-Pooh-man.

If you want allies in supporting democracy and human rights, the obvious approach is to not attack said allies.

yatopifo• 1 year ago

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.

_aavaa_2• 1 year ago

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.

_23sd• 1 year ago

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.

thijson2• 1 year ago

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.

https://motorillustrated.com/byd-targets-100000-ev-sales-in-...

theluketaylor2• 1 year ago

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.

jmpman2• 1 year ago

Why doesn’t Canada just go nuclear and proliferate nuclear technology to any country which the US imposes tariffs upon? If you’re a country with free will, play the game all the way.

bluefirebrand5• 1 year ago

Because we don't want to throw gas on an already rough situation?

There is no need to go scorched earth immediately, it hasn't even been a day yet

jmpman2• 1 year ago

Powering down the North Warning System seems like another option?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Warning_System

skeaker• 1 year ago

The endest-endgame should probably be avoiding a nuclear apocalypse, and distributing nuclear arms would go counter to that.

defrost• 1 year ago

Canada already made that choice, sided with the British and provided plans and materials to the United States that initiated and sustained the Manhatten Project.

They are the OG's of nuclear weapons proliferation.

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/location/canada/

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canada-and...

dredmorbius• 1 year ago

There's also the Avro CF-105 Arrow fighter jet cancelled, it's widely understood, under US pressure in 1959:

<https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/09/19/long-secret-canadian-...>

<https://theaviationgeekclub.com/magnificent-failure-the-stor...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow>

pvg• 1 year ago

Because Canada is an NPT signatory as are most other countries which grants them access to most nuclear technology.

Marsymars3• 1 year ago

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.)

hnburnsy• 1 year ago

"A Canadian candidate for Prime Minister" does not equal "Canada".

belter• 1 year ago

And it's flagged...

throw16180339• 1 year ago

Any story about Musk gets flagged, although sometimes dang restores them.

Canada proposes 100% tariffs on Tesla

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