Mazda Canada to Stop Importing U.S.-Built CX-50 Due to Tariffs
In what is the first tangible effect of Canada’s 25-percent tariff on vehicles made in the U.S. in response to Donald Trump waging a trade war on foreign countries, Mazda will stop shipping CX-50 crossovers to Canada starting May 12.
Production of the CX-50 takes place at a joint-venture assembly plant shared with Toyota down in Alabama.
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To be clear, Mazda is not giving up permanently on the CX-50. Instead, the company will indefinitely pause production for the Canadian market.
Mazda Canada says that units currently on dealer lots and in transit will be sold tariff-free, but once dealers run out of inventory, no new shipments are planned.
This move is likely to help boost sales of Mazda’s other crossovers, which are mostly made in Japan, including the CX-5, CX-70 and CX-90. The latter is one of the rare three-row SUVs not to be manufactured in the U.S.
With 10,759 CX-50s sold in Canada last year, the fresher and more premium of the two Mazda compact crossovers accounts for roughly 15 percent of the brand’s total sales in the country. For 2025, the lineup gained a hybrid variant that delivers impressive fuel economy and more exciting handling than comparable products from Toyota and Honda.
