Trump Literally Becomes "The Don", and Teaches Columbia About FAFO.
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That's the chicken tax.
It was set up to protect the American trucks from being out competed by the Japanese trucks.
While in principle I agree with protecting American companies more than foreign companies, the chicken tax has led to the American trucks becoming huge pieces of shit rather than reliable work vehicles. You can't get something like a Honda Acty or even something as small as the old Ford Ranger anymore due to CAFE laws on one end and the chicken tax on the other. This is why 25+ year old kei trucks are becoming very popular for farmers. They are very cheap, small, and work great on a farm. The only real problem is that there isn't really an existent support network for kei trucks in the USA, so repairing them is kind of a pain if you don't know what you are doing.
CAFE?
Corporate Average Fuel Economy.
The feds keep raising the target on how fuel efficient cars have to be, so manufacturers come up with stupid gimmicks like engine start-stop, cylinder deactivation, 3-cylinder engines with turbochargers, etc. All just to squeeze some extra miles-per-gallon in a lab.
Meanwhile, in the real world, you're stuck with an anemic piece of shit that has a heart attack just trying to merge onto the highway while burning more gas than if you had a regular V6.
Hey! My Outback Wilderness with nearly 20000 miles on it has saved nearly seven gallons of gas in its lifetime with this clearly valuable feature!
And I would argue the reason you have seen things like the Ford Maverick and the Hyundai Santa Fe eating up the sales charts is because they were able to make a small truck that isnt actually classified as a truck (because it is unibody and on a car chassis), so they could make it smaller.