Volkswagen's head in the United States says that the company would give thought to bringing the Amarok pickup truck to the U.S. if the so-called Chicken Tax is repealed. In the 1960s, President's DeGaulle and Johnson got into a spat and in response to a European tax on American chickens, the U.S. instituted a 25% tariff on a number of items including light trucks, probably targeted at the VW Bus.
The tariff on the other items went away but American automakers lobbied to keep it in place for trucks when imports of small Japanese pickups started increasing in the 1970s. Now that the American tariff is potentially on the table during negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, foreign automakers are considering their options should the Chicken Tax go away.
At the recent Los Angeles auto show, Jonathan Browning, CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, said, "We do not have any plans to introduce a VW pickup in the U.S. market, buut if there was no chicken tax, that would be a good time to reevaluate that."
from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com
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