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Reason
Eric Boehm

Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The 'Chicken Tax' That Makes Pickup Trucks More Expensive

The brief trade war between the U.S. and Europe in the early 1960s might seem hardly worth remembering—and it pales in comparison to the political and cultural upheaval that defined that decade.

But any American who has bought a pickup truck in the past 50 years has been collateral damage in that conflict—a conflict that started because European farmers were mad about American exports of frozen chicken.

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