Making Money Minute - October 6, 2025
Update: 2025-10-10
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Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Chinese Cars & Tariffs
The reason we put high tariffs on Chinese cars, is they would totally crush our domestic industry if we let them in. For example, BYD, China’s largest vehicle maker, released a car a couple of months ago that cost roughly $19,000 Canadian dollars. This gas electric hybrid is so efficient that it will run 2000 kilometres on a tank of fuel. This makes it the most efficient vehicle in its class by 50%. We have nothing in the west that is comparable on price or efficiency. The only way for us to compete is either with better, cheaper products, or using tariffs to keep them out. It looks like tariffs win.
The reason we put high tariffs on Chinese cars, is they would totally crush our domestic industry if we let them in. For example, BYD, China’s largest vehicle maker, released a car a couple of months ago that cost roughly $19,000 Canadian dollars. This gas electric hybrid is so efficient that it will run 2000 kilometres on a tank of fuel. This makes it the most efficient vehicle in its class by 50%. We have nothing in the west that is comparable on price or efficiency. The only way for us to compete is either with better, cheaper products, or using tariffs to keep them out. It looks like tariffs win.
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