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Reminds me of those light trucks that get ripped apart to create passenger cars.

EDIT: I had it backwards. The tax is on trucks and it gets circumvented by importing them as passenger cars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

Nah, light trucks are in a whole other category (or exempt, I don't know) in "CAFE" standards, so that's why you see so many SUV's in America.

Economic Partnership Agreement between Japan and EU had signed that abolishes the video camera tax. Most camera brands are in Japan but I don't know how many cameras made in Japan.

This Japanese article describing the agreement especially for cameras. I can't find English articles like this.

https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/series/zooma/1171774.htm...

This is the original agreement text that's too long didn't read.

https://www.mofa.go.jp/ecm/ie/page4e_000875.html

That's a really interesting piece of knowledge — thank you for sharing!