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> True story from my days as a U.S. Customs import specialist (I lasted
> about 8 months...the job was just too boring for words and paid crap)...
> The Subaru BRAT was a light weight pick up truck that had two heavy duty
> rear facing seats in the truck and carpeting in the bed. The story was
> that the import tax on pick ups was much higher than it was for cars (the
> aforementioned Chicken tax). Subaru shipped them to the U.S. as cars, not
> trucks, making the argument that the rear facing seats in the truck bed
> qualified the vehicle to be a 4 passenger car. Customs eventually
> decided that a "pig was a pig" and a truck was a truck, and the seats
> stopped being a feature after the 1985 model year.
>
>
> True story from my days as a U.S. Customs import specialist (I lasted
> about 8 months...the job was just too boring for words and paid crap)...
> The Subaru BRAT was a light weight pick up truck that had two heavy duty
> rear facing seats in the truck and carpeting in the bed. The story was
> that the import tax on pick ups was much higher than it was for cars (the
> aforementioned Chicken tax). Subaru shipped them to the U.S. as cars, not
> trucks, making the argument that the rear facing seats in the truck bed
> qualified the vehicle to be a 4 passenger car. Customs eventually
> decided that a "pig was a pig" and a truck was a truck, and the seats
> stopped being a feature after the 1985 model year.
>
>