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You picked a good example with Ford that illustrates the parent's point, probably in a way not intended by the parent post. Soon Ford will no longer be an autom

by gvb 7y ago

You picked a good example with Ford that illustrates the parent's point, probably in a way not intended by the parent post. Soon Ford will no longer be an automobile manufacturer - they will only be building trucks and SUVs (aka fake trucks) with the lone exception of the Mustang. Ref: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/ford-stop-making-all-passenger-cars-except-mustang-n869256 https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/ford-stop-making-all-...

petre 7y ago
Aren't SUVs and truck protected from foreign competition by the chicken tax? VW is also building more SUVs. They have like 4 models not counting Audi, Skoda and Seat.
- village-idiot 7y ago
  The chicken truck tax is pretty easy to avoid, you just need to bolt a few final parts onto the vehicle in America and call it final assembly. This is why the Subaru Brat, a light truck by all definitions, came with some very dangerous plastic seats in the back, to dodge the chicken tax. The expectation was that the user would remove them themselves to dodge the 25% tariff.
- cwilkes 7y ago
  I didn’t know what the chicken tax was. Here’s a write up on it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-strange-case-of-fords-attempt-to-avoid-thechicken-tax/2018/07/06/643624fa-796a-11e8-8df3-007495a78738_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-strange-... In short: the EU wanted to stop a flood of US chickens in the 60s so they imposed a tariffs. The US then retaliated by tariffing trucks, mainly from VW. But what is a truck? Is a minivan a truck? I didn’t know this but the Ford Transit is built in Spain and comes to the US with rear seats and also glass windows in the rear. At customs the seats are ripped out and the rear windows are plated over now making it a popular delivery truck, this voiding $250M in taxes.

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You picked a good example with Ford that illustrates the parent's point, probably in a way not intended by the parent post. Soon Ford will no longer be an autom

by gvb 7y ago

petre 7y ago
Aren't SUVs and truck protected from foreign competition by the chicken tax? VW is also building more SUVs. They have like 4 models not counting Audi, Skoda and Seat.
- village-idiot 7y ago
  The chicken truck tax is pretty easy to avoid, you just need to bolt a few final parts onto the vehicle in America and call it final assembly. This is why the Subaru Brat, a light truck by all definitions, came with some very dangerous plastic seats in the back, to dodge the chicken tax. The expectation was that the user would remove them themselves to dodge the 25% tariff.
- cwilkes 7y ago
  I didn’t know what the chicken tax was. Here’s a write up on it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-strange-case-of-fords-attempt-to-avoid-thechicken-tax/2018/07/06/643624fa-796a-11e8-8df3-007495a78738_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-strange-... In short: the EU wanted to stop a flood of US chickens in the 60s so they imposed a tariffs. The US then retaliated by tariffing trucks, mainly from VW. But what is a truck? Is a minivan a truck? I didn’t know this but the Ford Transit is built in Spain and comes to the US with rear seats and also glass windows in the rear. At customs the seats are ripped out and the rear windows are plated over now making it a popular delivery truck, this voiding $250M in taxes.