The "chicken tax" and the U.S. auto industry

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• How chickens built the American pickup

  by David Brancaccio, Alex Schroeder and Emma Condon

  

  In the 1960s, the German government put a tariff on American chickens. President Johnson then retaliated with a tariff on light-duty commercial vehicles and trucks. The back-and-forth has come to define the U.S. auto industry.

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