Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has published options it will consider for deterring Chinese-made electric vehicles from accessing the Canadian market, including putting tariffs on imported and blocking Chinese investment in new Canadian factories.
Canada’s EV industry is “at risk of being undermined by the significant recent increase in exports of Chinese EVs to the Canadian and global markets, enabled by unfair support through China’s use of a broad range of non-market policies and practices,” the consultation paper says. In another section, the paper considers the possibility that “Chinese companies could seek to establish facilities to manufacture EVs within Canada” in an attempt to “access the North American market in light of potential tariff measures.”