Automakers may soon run out of ways to dodge tariffs

Nissan vehicles sit in a lot. Nissan Canada has temporarily stopped producing certain models for the Canadian market because they are subject to tariffs. Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg

The price and availability of new cars and trucks in Canada may have barely increased since the trade war with the United States erupted, but that could be about to change.

Behind the scenes, U.S. tariffs and Canadian retaliatory tariffs are scrambling automotive supply chains and costing automakers billions of dollars.

So far, many of these changes have barely registered for Canadian consumers, in part because automakers have found ways to avoid tariffs, including by stockpiling inventory before the tariffs took effect and bringing in more vehicles from Mexico rather than the U.S. But a DesRosiers