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steal this startup idea: you can't buy BYD in the USA (thanks to Biden actually, not current admin) BUT there's a loophole to have a car from Canada in the U
by ck2 5mo ago
steal this startup idea:
you can't buy BYD in the USA (thanks to Biden actually, not current admin)
BUT
there's a loophole to have a car from Canada in the USA for a year
so lease them from Canada to USA buyers for a year at a time
- AlanYx 5mo agoIt's not yet easy to buy BYD vehicles in Canada either. The first quota of 49,000 vehicles was only recently announced, and that's to be shared across all Chinese vendors.
- anonymousab 5mo agoI expect that the US administration will very quickly ban these cars from being leased or resold into the US from Canada. ...if they're not banned from entering the USA altogether, which seemed to be the way the US President was leaning already.
- dlev_pika 5mo agoI think that if you maintain a policy, it becomes yours too.
- melonpan7 5mo agoProvided they are available in Canada. There’s only roughly 50k imports in the first year and that will be split across all Chinese manufactured EVs (not necessarily Chinese brands). I assume the majority will be Teslas from their Shanghai factory.