slinches
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What, if any import costs would apply to the Solo when purchased from the US?
And would the tax incentives apply to purchases outside the country?
And would the tax incentives apply to purchases outside the country?
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Electra Meccanica (three Wheel Electric) Email-11/2/15
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Without KNOWLEDGE of the specific, I would doubt there would be any significant export fees or taxes, but I can't see any country, particularly European, failing to tax the bejeebers out of it to protect their own auto and motorcycle industries. They do not get cute with blatant protectionism like we do. They just do it.
Yeah! We do it too. But add a zero for import taxes in Europe.
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Wow. No wonder all the foreign truck makers built plants here and in Mexico.
2barrel
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That's why there were so few VW pickup trucks on our roads!
Rob Croson
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It's the Chicken Tax, and it's been around since 1963. (Not a joke. Check it on Wikipedia.) It's a cold war relic, of which the only part that survives is the light truck import tax. A fossil testimony to union power and protectionism. It's things like this that force Ford to import "passenger vans" from Turkey, rip the seats out (and shred them!) and replace window glass with steel sheeting in Baltimore, then resell them as the Transit Connect light duty cargo vans. Cargo vans area taxed as light trucks (25%), but passenger vans are taxed as cars (~2.5%?). Mexico and Canada are excluded from the Chicken Tax by the North American Free Trade Agreement, which most people know as NAFTA.
Hog
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Rob is correct, transits are stripped out vans built in Turkey -, thats why I went with my Ram minivan. Its also why we cannot buy that excellent chevy pickup/car they have in australia (forgot its name, but I so want one.
Rob Croson
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Yes. The BRAT is discussed in the linked Wikipedia article.
"From 1978–1987 the Subaru BRAT carried two rear-facing seats (with seatbelts and carpeting) in its rear bed to meet classification as a "passenger vehicle" and not a light truck."
Also, some Japanese manufacturers would import a "cab-chassis" as a passenger vehicle, which was everything except the bed. They would then attach the bed in the US and sell it as a truck, thus avoiding the truck import tax.
As for Dodge Ram....
"Chrysler has announced it will introduce the Ram ProMaster City, an Americanised version of the Fiat Doblò, in 2015 — building the vehicle at the Tofaş plant in Turkey, importing only passenger configurations and subsequently converting cargo configurations.[19]"
Some manufacturers also ship "known down kits" to the US which contain all the parts, then do final assembly in the US to avoid the Chicken Tax.
But all of this is mostly OT in this thread, even if the interplay between unionized labor, tariff, and protectionism is pretty interesting. The Solo is a passenger car, not a light truck, so these import taxes wouldn't apply. And it's built in Canada, so the NAFTA exception would apply anyway.
"From 1978–1987 the Subaru BRAT carried two rear-facing seats (with seatbelts and carpeting) in its rear bed to meet classification as a "passenger vehicle" and not a light truck."
Also, some Japanese manufacturers would import a "cab-chassis" as a passenger vehicle, which was everything except the bed. They would then attach the bed in the US and sell it as a truck, thus avoiding the truck import tax.
As for Dodge Ram....
"Chrysler has announced it will introduce the Ram ProMaster City, an Americanised version of the Fiat Doblò, in 2015 — building the vehicle at the Tofaş plant in Turkey, importing only passenger configurations and subsequently converting cargo configurations.[19]"
Some manufacturers also ship "known down kits" to the US which contain all the parts, then do final assembly in the US to avoid the Chicken Tax.
But all of this is mostly OT in this thread, even if the interplay between unionized labor, tariff, and protectionism is pretty interesting. The Solo is a passenger car, not a light truck, so these import taxes wouldn't apply. And it's built in Canada, so the NAFTA exception would apply anyway.