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Old 03-09-2015, 10:52 AM   #291 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Hersbird View Post
Read it carefully.

These are not your chicken-tax pick-ups.

This law covers tiny Kei-trucks converted to off-road spec so as not to require compliance with the clean air act.

And frankly, it doesn't ban them. At all. It simply requires that the modifications to make them exempt from EPA regulation, so they can be registered as off-road vehicles (in this case, addition of speed governors), be performed before they are imported to the USA.

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Your guy in India, as long as he's willing to make those modifications, can send those trucks over pretty easily as off-road equipment. Hell... that's how many off-road outfitters do business, as it is.

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