VW Amarok Might be Heading to the U.S.
The Chief of VW Group of America tells that the brand considers shipping the Amarok to the Northern America if the U.S. government removes the “Chicken Tax.”
The “Chicken Tax” was initially created as a 25% tax on outlandish pickup trucks as a reply to a heavy tax the EU imposed on US chickens. As a result, this very tax has significantly increased the truck prices due to the lack of market rivalry. For instance, previous year 1.8-million trucks were delivered in the U.S. and only around 300 of them were foreign.
“We are not going to ship the VW pickup to the U.S.”, informed Jonathan Browning, Chief of VW Group America. “However, if there was no “chicken tax”, that might be a good time to reconsider that.”
It’s always been a good assumption that different global auto companies would ship their pickups to the America if there was no tariff. Fortunately, the U.S. government is considering axing the tax and is going to us it as leverage while talking about free-trade agreements with the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
