A dispute over frozen chicken still taxes the trucks you can buy today

In the early 1960s, European tariffs on American frozen chicken imports angered US poultry farmers, who had been undercutting European producers on price. In retaliation, President Lyndon Johnson imposed a 25% tariff on several European goods in 1963, including light trucks. Most of those tariffs were later dropped, but the 25% truck tariff, nicknamed the 'chicken tax,' is still in effect today, and is a major reason small pickup trucks common elsewhere are rare in the US.

— Wikipedia contributors, Chicken Tax — US-EEC trade dispute, 1961-1964

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