Isbn: 9783565341740 - retaliatory tariffs: how the chicken tax built the american truck: protectionism, loopholes, and the geopolitical distortion of automotive manufacturing in the global economy (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 century later, the 'Chicken Tax' remains on the books. This highly specific economic analysis reveals how a temporary political maneuver permanently distorted the global automotive industry. It effectively shielded Detroit automakers from foreign competition, creating a highly profitable domestic monopoly on pickup trucks while stifling innovation.You will explore the absurd, multi-million-dollar engineering loopholes foreign companies invented to bypass the tax-from installing useless rear seats to importing trucks as 'passenger vehicles' only to tear them apart upon arrival.Decode the strangest tariff in global commerce. Understand how a diplomatic spat over frozen birds reshaped automotive manufacturing, manipulated consumer culture, and built the modern American truck empire.…