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Why you cant buy a truck from Europe? Chickens
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<blockquote data-quote="Steve S 3" data-source="post: 1020855" data-attributes="member: 70058"><p>You know why you can't get European trucks in the US? A ridiculous tax that came about over a fight about chickens. No joke</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>after WWII, the US found that we'd become really good at factory farming, and as such could really crank out some chickens, at rates never before known. </p><p></p><p>Chicken prices plummeted, and European chicken-gorging reached new heights. This started rounds of accusations ? the Dutch claiming chickens were being dumped on the market below cost, the West Germans going all the way and suggesting American chickens were artificially plumped with arsenic (some sort of were), it was a mess.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Eventually, it all ended with a bunch of import restrictions on American chickens into Europe, causing a 25% loss of business for US chicken exporters.</p><p></p><p>American retaliated in 1963 with a the tariff on potato starch, brandy, dextrose, and a 25% tax on light trucks.</p><p></p><p>Interesting that the Subaru Brat got around the tax by adding those jump seats!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve S 3, post: 1020855, member: 70058"] You know why you can't get European trucks in the US? A ridiculous tax that came about over a fight about chickens. No joke after WWII, the US found that we'd become really good at factory farming, and as such could really crank out some chickens, at rates never before known. Chicken prices plummeted, and European chicken-gorging reached new heights. This started rounds of accusations ? the Dutch claiming chickens were being dumped on the market below cost, the West Germans going all the way and suggesting American chickens were artificially plumped with arsenic (some sort of were), it was a mess. Eventually, it all ended with a bunch of import restrictions on American chickens into Europe, causing a 25% loss of business for US chicken exporters. American retaliated in 1963 with a the tariff on potato starch, brandy, dextrose, and a 25% tax on light trucks. Interesting that the Subaru Brat got around the tax by adding those jump seats! [/QUOTE]
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