Importation of AFV's into the USA

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Neil Ashley
...preventing the importation of American manufactured armoured vehicles back into the USA.

...there may have been a problem with lend lease vehicles, but I had not heard of a total ban of this type.

Neil, I think this is the same. Shortly after WW2 the large auto manufacturers initiated a law banning any Amercan manufactured vehicle supplied under Lend-Lease from being brought back into the US. This was done to prevent their home market being flooded by ex-Army vehicles, thus seriously threatening the manufacture of new vehicles. I believe today this law is mainly applied to armed/armoured vehicles, would be interested to hear if they apply it to unarmoured and unarmed trucks as well.

H.