The danger of treaties is they take away national sovereignty. The United States is a signatory to numerous treaties, including the Global Agreement on Taxes and Tariffs (GATT.) When GWB needed votes in Pennsylvania, he imposed a tax on imported steel. The United States was taken to an international court for a treaty violation and loss the case. This enabled our trading partners to tax whatever the heck they wanted from the United States until GWB rescinded the tariff. So, with great political acumen other nations targeted imports to their country coming from areas where GWB also needed votes. These were punitive tariffs. GWB was forced to rescind the steel tariff.
Your idea won’t work because the United States would be made to suffer much more than other countries would suffer for the imposition of your suggested tax (tariffs.)
Also, this has been tried before and always ends up in a destructive trade war. All sides lose.
To bring business back we need tort reform so specially protected types of people don’t get free (taxpayer paid) attorneys to sue for everything under the sun. Also, get rid of the punitive EPA and the alphabet soup of government and local agencies that only exist to further liberal political aims. Incredibly complex and onerous labor laws need modification and there’s a host of other governmental liabilities for owning a business in the US. Those are the things we can and should change.
Here's the deal: if you win, you just had U.S. taxpayers pay for lawyers to raise taxes on themselves to your own profit. If you lose, you just had U.S. taxpayers pay for lawyers, and you lose nothing.