China is a non event when it comes to US exports, much of it commodity based.The US exports only an insignificant 130 billion to China out of our 15 trillion dollar economy. We export at least twice as much to each the EU, Mexico and Canada.The price we pay for these miniscule exports is China basically steals our technology to build their future which is at least as equally as important as the 500 billion they export to the US which represents a huge part of their global trade surplus and enriches them to build weapons systems and military islands offshore. Lastly the argument that we consumers pay more for tariff levied imports from China. Two arguments. a)suck it up, so you pay $1.25 rather than a buck for that can opener from Walmart as the aftershock of solving a toxic national economic issue b} there are other third world countries that will take up the slack and have already started doing so and in a few months your can opener will be back down to a buck.
Regarding tariffs collected......
Like the Senator said, a billion here and a billion there and pretty soon we’ve collected enough to build the wall.
“Two arguments”
Actually, here is a 3rd argument. Produce some of the goods in the USA to avoid the 25% tariff.