Chinese Cars Can’t Cross From Canada to US, Trump’s Envoy Says

The US won’t allow Chinese electric cars from Canada to enter its market, President Donald Trump’s ambassador in Ottawa said, after a January deal in which Prime Minister Mark Carney lowered tariffs on those vehicles.

“Those cars can come in from China, come into Canada, but they’re not going to cross the border into the US,” Pete Hoekstra said in an interview with Canada’s Rebel News. “That ain’t gonna happen.”

“We’re not going to open the floodgates to Chinese cars entering the US from Canada,” he said, citing security concerns related to data collected and transmitted by modern vehicles. ...