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What is the Chicken Tax? And Why Does It Make American Trucks so Expensive?

Posted on August 21, 2023August 27, 2023 By bot

Pickup trucks have become incredibly expensive in the United States. One of the primary reasons cited is the so-called “Chicken Tax,” which places an extreme import duty on foreign pickups to America. Here’s what you need to know about it. Why did the chicken tax happen? In the early 1960s, the European Common Market was worried about cheap chicken flooding in from America. They set price controls to protect European farmers. The American poultry industry lost a lot
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