American consumers deserve to have free market options in the small truck category. It is time to repeal the anachronistic restriction to this specific transportation market category. Given the global nature of vehicle manufacturing, this tariff makes even less sense now than ever before.
From Wikipedia: "The chicken tax is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken....Eventually, the tariffs on potato starch, dextrin, and brandy were lifted,but over the next [50] years the light truck tax ossified, remaining in place to protect U.S. domestic automakers from foreign light truck production."