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What is Canada/Ontario doing?

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 day ago

Europe has "reasonable tariff levels" that allowed them to first get some tax revenue, and then noticing the cars were popular they built factories there. Europe is a little different in that it is a very large open market.

Reasonable tariff levels would allow for introduction while still selling our own cars. Plan A of keeping our auto industry, but plan B, have better value cars from China, and never buy another American car again if they abandon us.

Our current tariff levels and attitude towards China, directly copying US policy/attitude, is equivalent to a ban. They can't trust us to be reasonable. Lower tariffs, perhaps with quotas to start, can raise tax revenue, but open the door to future cooperation (plan B)