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Ontario premier slams Canada’s 'lopsided' new EV deal with China
Ford warns the trade deal allowing 49,000 Chinese EVs at 6.1% tariff threatens Canadian auto jobs and risks closing access to the U.S. market, citing lack of investment guarantees.
- On Friday in Beijing, Prime Minister Mark Carney reached an agreement with Xi Jinping allowing nearly 50,000 Chinese electric vehicles into Canada at low tariffs in exchange for reduced Chinese levies on canola and other products.
- China agreed to cut canola seed tariffs to approximately 15 per cent by March 1 and remove tariffs on canola meal, lobsters, crabs and peas until at least the end of this year.
- Lowering tariffs from 100 per cent to 6.1 per cent, the deal applies to the first 50,000 vehicles, and Carney said the quota will rise by more than six per cent annually.
- Ontario Premier Doug Ford attacked the deal, calling it a lopsided agreement that will hurt Canadian workers and urging urgent federal support to bring jobs to Brampton, Oshawa, and Ingersoll.
- Provincial reactions split between export gains and industry risk, as western premiers like Scott Moe, Saskatchewan Premier, praised the deal while critics warned it could threaten Canadian assembly lines and the U.S. auto market.
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