You have to have the good to export though.
SocialID, although transferable Import Certificates would entirely, or almost entirely eliminate their nation’s annual trade deficits of goods, I doubt that you fully appreciate the certificates desirable attributes that are due to the essentially competitive global certificate markets.
The “face values” of the certificates that are equal to the underlying assessed values of USA’s export shipments.
Any other information associated with the certificates, (e.g. a certificates’ serial numbers) are only to prevent counterfeiting or other frauds.
Other than the certificates' face values, national sources of import products, the kind product or the nation from which the product was imported into the USA or from pr exported from the USA is irrelevant to the certificate's purpose.
The same certificate that could be surrendered to permit imports of T-shirts from China could have rather been surrendered to permit imports of trucks or truck parts from Canada. That certificate could have been issued for export of USA beef, or the export of USA aircrafts or parts.
Because face value is the only functional difference between certificates, the costs for acquiring certificates to import Chinese T-shirts or British Rolls-Royce vehicles will be proportionally similar to the value of the import shipments. The commercial brokers or internet web sites that would be readily buy and sell certificates would be equally available to all importers of goods into the USA.
If the market price rates of certificates increase, it becomes financially more feasible to export USA goods purchased at greater marginal costs and recoup that loss of revenue by the profits from acquiring the certificates that have increased in value.
Price is ALMOST EVERYTHING; you can sell almost anything of some value if the price is sufficiently less.
IF USA purchasers are willing to pay more for imported goods, there’s no shortage of transferable certificates.
On the other hand if USA purchasers balk at paying more for imported goods, the price rate for certificates on the competitive global certificate market will fall and the prices of imported goods sold within the USA will become more reasonable. This trade policy is substantially market driven.
Respectfully, Supposn