Retaliatory Tariffs: How the Chicken Tax Built the American Truck

If you drive on any American highway today, you will be surrounded by massive, domestically produced light trucks. This is not solely due to consumer preference; it is the direct result of a bizarre geopolitical feud over cheap poultry. In 1963, facing European tariffs on cheap American chicken, President Lyndon B. Johnson retaliated by placing a 25% tariff on imported light trucks. Over half a ...