FILE - Visitors check the China made BYD ATTO 3 at the IAA motor show in Munich, Germany, on Sept. 8, 2023.Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling for the federal government to immediately bring in tariffs that match or exceed those recently imposed by the U.S. on Chinese imports, including a 100-per-cent tariff on electric vehicles.
The Biden administration quadrupled tariffs on imports of Chinese EVs to 100 per cent from 25 per cent. Tariffs on both lithium-ion batteries and battery parts imported from China are rising to 25 per cent from 7.5 per cent. The U.S. is also increasing tariffs from zero to 25 per cent on a long list of critical minerals, including graphite, cobalt, aluminum, chromium, tantalum and ferro-nickel.
Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, says he believes Canada will follow suit on the EV tariffs – and that he has been making this case to federal officials. He said the federal government may be considering how to tailor its response, given the effect Chinese retaliation could have on Canadian mining and other industries.
“That’s a federal responsibility and not a provincial one,” he said of the EV-sales mandate. “And that’s why I think you see Doug Ford with clarity and the federal government still consulting.”
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