Chinese EVs are rolling into Canada and rattling the competition in the U.S.
Chinese-made electric vehicles are beginning to arrive in Canada under a new arrangement that Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to in January during a visit with China’s President Xi Jinping. The cars will be the first to be imported by Canada under a deal that allows as many as 49,000 Chinese EVs in a 12-month period at a tariff rate of around 6%. Before this year, Canada had a tariff of more than 100% on those products, effectively shutting them out. In recent days, hundreds of Tesla Inc. cars made at the U.S. automaker’s Shanghai factory have started to show up under the new low-tariff regime, according to a person familiar with the matter, asking not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak publicly. A vehicle carrier called Glovis Treasure with cargo including a small number of Chinese-made Lotus luxury brand cars has been moored outside the Port of Vancouver since Sunday. The ship departed Shanghai in early May, according to shipping data compiled by Bloomberg. The Canada-China deal will be closely …

