The Chicken Tax— actually a tax on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks — was a 1964 response by the U.S. under President Lyndon B. Johnson to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken.
The period of tensions and negotiations from 1961-1964 surrounding the issue, which took place at the height of Cold War politics, was known as the Chicken War.
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