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Furthermore the taxed portion certainly wouldn't be going into china, if such non-negligible tax ever was implemented. The evul government is not the one sending all that money away, it's the consumer. Governments usually benefit whatever they do from low import tax because a chinese seller investing in your market is simply offsetting the loss made from whichever chinese fruit picker is conversely sending all his salary back home. Most "china shit" is actually sold by natives of the target country living in China, because those are the people able to effectively market to their home country.

Effect of actually having big import tax would, for one, ruin those people, and they'd have to move back home to pick strawberries instead, and the consumer gets cheap strawberries instead of cheap rearview cameras made from razed Chinese mineral deposits.