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Date:         Fri, 15 May 1998 08:28:52 CDT
Reply-To:     Joel Walker <JWALKER@UA1VM.UA.EDU>
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From:         Joel Walker <JWALKER@UA1VM.UA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Crew Cabs in the USA (Chicken Wars)
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On Fri, 15 May 1998 00:22:12 EDT Thing Guy said: >Eventually VW lost all market share of the US truck market and eventually gave >up and no longer imported trucks even after the tariffs were abolished.

as far as i was able to tell, the tariffs have NOT been abolished !!! when i was looking to buy a double-cab vanagon pickup a few years back, i found that i'd have to pay a TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT duty on the truck when i brought it back across the border from canada. that's a u.s. tax. why? cause it was a non-u.s. pickup truck!! :(

so the chicken-tax seems to be still in force, as far as i can tell. :(

joel


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