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To Outfox the Chicken Tax, Ford Strips Its Own Vans

Logic Takes a Back Seat -- and Windows, as Auto Maker Plays Tariff Games

By Matthew Dolan

BALTIMORE -- Several times a month, Transit Connect vans from a Ford Motor Co. factory in Turkey roll off a ship here shiny and new, rear side windows gleaming, back seats firmly bolted to the floor.

Their first stop in America is a low-slung, brick warehouse where those same windows, never squeegeed at a gas station, and seats, never touched by human backsides, are promptly ripped out.

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