Still, as a thought experiment, I wonder how it would work out for the global economy if every country/economic block in the world would simply match prices of imported products with comparable locally produced items. I guess one of the big issues would be how to assure comparisons between products are fair.

Also "It is absolutely impossible to turn your Äike on and ride without turning it on through your personal account on our app." This is a no-go. No way! It is like one of those "security measures" which complicates lives of users without adding much if any to security.

There is another way than taxes: impose (or, where they exist, drastically increase) minimum standards upon products and manufacturing practices, similar to how we have existing laws about e.g. animal care, and actually enforce them both inside the market (to prevent locals from short-cutting, e.g. by using undocumented immigrants as farm labor) and outside the market (to combat stuff like outright slavery).

> Factory farming is bad, animals are bred to grow chomnk within weeks and it's atrocious, but this organic meat is twice as expensive for the same product, so ????

For food especially, there is another problem - minimum wages are way too low and rents too high, both in the US and EU. Way too many people have to "choose" low-quality or exploitatively-made food simply because they already are struggling to make ends meet.

And of course people are going to get annoyed at politics if they can see rising food prices, which means (together with legal bribery aka "donations" from Big Ag) politicians don't like to impose or tighten standards in agriculture.

Fix minimum wages and people will automatically go for healthier food.