There are many reasonable ideas for import taxation. But what you describe was not what happened. China fought back with their own tariffs, and you may well have paid less import tax on your Temu knock-offs than you did for some widget made with both higher environmental and labor standards in some western European country.

You are pro thoughtless tariffs against every random country, because of temu ads?

Don’t panic too much yet, there are other legal bases for the tariffs.

We’ll see…