Tesla has used about 12% of Canada’s first-window quota for Chinese-built EVs, the only automaker yet to move volume under the new system announced last January.
Global Affairs Canada data show 2,910 vehicles imported under the quota as of May 29, against a cap of 24,500 for the window that opened March 1 and runs to August 31.
The figures leave 21,590 permits available.
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Car shipments from Shanghai adds roughly four to six weeks, so even permits filed on day one would not have landed cars much before mid-spring.
The 2,910 figure equals 11.9% of the window’s allocation, and competitors have yet to register a single unit.
At this pace, Tesla could claim a large share of the 24,500 ceiling before the window closes at the end of August.
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Brazil did not close that factory, which hadn’t even opened yet. The factory is being built, and the developer who was building it (contracted by BYD) was indeed fined for the irregularities. But the factory is still going to be built and opened.
Not what I’m doing, and I agree. I’m not justifying anything, I’m saying that China is held to a different standard.
Yes, indeed. Republicans and Canadian Conservatives also reject social welfare based on the same logic. Both are ruling powers who see cheap labour as economic might and look the other way. But only one of them is given trade sanctions.
@Vctor Villas
Xi Jinping rejects social welfare as, according to him, China could “fall into the trap of supporting lazy people."
Seems the Republicans and the Chinese Communist Party are much closer than they admit.