Following a January deal on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) makers\u2019 imports into Canada, there was a rush to buy Polestar EVs at an Oakville showroom in Canada\u2019s Ontario province. But potential buyers say there are now too few Chinese EVs in the Canadian market.<\/p>\n
During Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s visit to Beijing earlier this year, Canada agreed to allow 49,000 Chinese EV imports annually at a 6.1 per cent tariff rate. But potential Canadian buyers are now gauging how long it will take the policy to become a reality, and a lot depends on Canada\u2019s tightly-controlled import licensing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got about 40 off-lease Polestar 2s that sold very quickly, with the attractive price point of these pre-owned EVs,\u201d said Jeevin Pal, a product specialist at the showroom in Ontario. \u201cWe\u2019re expecting another set in October, and I think they\u2019ll go quickly too; the cars are very popular.\u201d<\/p>\n
An import permit from the Canadian foreign ministry is required to bring in a Chinese EV, and permits are issued based on the annual quota.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce quota is reached, permits will no longer be issued,\u201d a Canadian customs notice read on March 1.<\/p>\n
An increase is not likely until 2030, when the import ceiling is set to be raised to 70,000 vehicles per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a January deal on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) makers\u2019 imports into Canada, there was a rush to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4434,17,351,40923,337,27665,162,6619,9063,5156,5401,16260,3838,37636,734,19788],"class_list":["post-120867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-byd","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-chery-automobile","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-donald-trump","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-evs","tag-geely","tag-hong-kong","tag-hybrid-vehicles","tag-melanie-joly","tag-polestar","tag-us","tag-xiaomi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}