> Titan had to pay millions to Washington lawyers to sue the Chinese tire companies because of their subsidizing. Titan won. The government collects the duties. We don't get the duties, the government does.
This is how tariffs work. You don't tax imports to fork over free money to domestic companies. The point is to increase the cost of the imported good to compensate for illegal (from the WTO's point of view) Chinese subsidies.
I'm confused as to why he thinks those taxes should go to Titan.
> I'm confused as to why he thinks those taxes should go to Titan.
Probably because from 2000–2005, under U.S. law [0], anti-dumping duties did get disbursed to the U.S. companies that brought successful anti-dumping complaints. This is illegal under WTO rules, however, and Congress repealed the law after the WTO authorized retaliatory sanctions against the U.S.
This is how tariffs work. You don't tax imports to fork over free money to domestic companies. The point is to increase the cost of the imported good to compensate for illegal (from the WTO's point of view) Chinese subsidies.
I'm confused as to why he thinks those taxes should go to Titan.