{"id":76299,"date":"2024-08-29T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T16:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76299"},"modified":"2024-08-29T12:03:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T16:03:31","slug":"tesla-sought-a-break-from-canadas-new-100-tariff-on-chinese-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76299","title":{"rendered":"Tesla sought a break from Canada’s new 100% tariff on Chinese EVs – Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese-built cars waiting to be loaded earlier this month at the port of Lianyungang, China<\/a>. Cars from China offloaded in Vancouver, B.C., were up 460% in 2023 from the previous year. (Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n

OTTAWA \u2014 Before Canada said this week it was imposing a 100% duty on Chinese-made electric vehicles<\/a>, Tesla<\/a> approached Ottawa and asked for a lower tariff on its autos, a Canadian government source said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Canada, following the lead of the United States, said on Monday it was setting the tariff for all Chinese-made vehicles sold in the country because of what it called China’s intentional, state-directed policy of over-capacity. The duties, effective Oct. 1, apply to all EVs shipped from China, including those made by Tesla. In June, Ottawa had flagged its intention to impose duties.<\/p>\n

The source, who requested anonymity given the sensitivity of the situation, said Tesla approached Canada before the official announcement. The automaker asked for a rate similar to what it received in the European Union, the source said. The EU softened its stance on Tesla this month when it imposed a 9% tariff on cars the company made in China, compared to a 36.3% rate it slapped on other Chinese EV imports.<\/p>\n

Tesla does not disclose its Chinese exports to Canada. However, vehicle-identification codes showed that the Model 3<\/a> compact sedan and Model Y<\/a> crossover models were being exported from Shanghai to Canada.<\/p>\n

While the EU only considered direct subsidy costs when calculating<\/a> its tariff for Tesla, the United States and Canada looked at subsidies, industrial over-capacity, non-market policies as well as environmental and labor standards, the source said.<\/p>\n

Tesla has not contacted Ottawa since Monday, the source said. The office of Canada’s Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland, who has overall responsibility for tariffs, declined to address talks with Tesla.<\/p>\n

Tesla was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n

Canadian imports of automobiles from China to its largest port, Vancouver, jumped 460% year over year to 44,356 in 2023, when Tesla started shipping Shanghai-made EVs to Canada.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Joe Biden<\/a> in May announced a quadrupling of tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to 100%, a doubling of duties on semiconductors and solar cells to 50%, as well as new 25% tariffs on lithium-ion batteries<\/a> and other strategic goods. Tesla has never shipped China-made models to the U.S. market, according to a company letter in July 2023 to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Implementation of the U.S. tariffs has been delayed until September and there is a possibility planned duties might be softened this week.<\/p>\n

Volvo<\/a> Cars said it was looking into the effects that the increased tariffs in Canada would have. The Swedish carmaker said it imported EX30, XC60<\/a> and a limited number of S90s<\/a> models from China to Canada, but did not disclose specific numbers.<\/p>\n

Swedish EV maker Polestar<\/a>, partly owned by Volvo Cars and China’s Geely<\/a>, ships the Polestar 2<\/a> from China to Canada. The company said it was reviewing the Canadian tariff’s impact.<\/p>\n

(Additional reporting by Divya Rajagopal in Toronto and David Shepardson in Washington; Editing by Ben Klayman and Rod Nickel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinese-built cars waiting to be loaded earlier this month at the port of Lianyungang, China. Cars from China offloaded in Vancouver, B.C., were up 460% in 2023 from the previous year. (Getty Images) OTTAWA \u2014 Before Canada said this week it was imposing a 100% duty on Chinese-made electric vehicles, Tesla approached Ottawa and asked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}