"exported to China ... to avoid ... Chinese car taxes"
If you want to avoid Chinese car taxes, exporting a car to China doesn't seem like a good start.
It's common for consumption taxes to be paid where the item is consumed. So if these exports 'avoid BC luxury vehicle tax' as you say, this makes total sense.
But those cars would be subject to tax when imported into China.
If you're a car manufacturer that sells your cars at higher pre-tax prices in China than in the rest of the world (i.e. most car manufacturers) then you don't want people to do this.
I think the implication is that they have some corrupt buddies on the receiving side in China. Or it could be like here in Thailand where they catch people buying luxury cars in other countries, breaking them down into multiple pieces, shipping them in, then reassembling them. There's a lot of ways to break the law.
If you want to avoid Chinese car taxes, exporting a car to China doesn't seem like a good start.
It's common for consumption taxes to be paid where the item is consumed. So if these exports 'avoid BC luxury vehicle tax' as you say, this makes total sense.
But those cars would be subject to tax when imported into China.
If you're a car manufacturer that sells your cars at higher pre-tax prices in China than in the rest of the world (i.e. most car manufacturers) then you don't want people to do this.