The Chicken Tax and the American Auto Market

"The 'Chicken Tax' was signed into law back in 1963 by Lyndon Johnson as a retaliatory measure directed at France and West Germany, which had imposed tariffs of their own on the importation of U.S. chicken. Hence the name. The measure hit back with tariffs on potato starch, brandy and light trucks imported to the United States, with the object of making all of them more expensive to import." Forty-two years later it's distorting the market for medium sized pick-up trucks.