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Chery Woos Canadian Car Dealers With Trip to Beijing Auto Show
The Chery Automobile Co. Exeed Design X concept electric vehicle at the Beijing Auto Show on April 24.
Photographer: Qilai Shen/BloombergChery Automobile Co. brought nearly two dozen representatives of Canadian dealerships to the Beijing auto show this week as it works to establish a sales network in Canada, according to the company’s chairman.
The Chinese automaker is one of several with plans to enter the Canadian market after Beijing and Ottawa struck a deal in January allowing imports of 49,000 electric vehicles annually from China. Chery hopes to tap into demand for its EVs and plug-in hybrids from buyers in Canada in the wake of soaring gasoline prices due to the US-Iran war, Chairman Yin Tongyue said in an interview Friday.