FCA Paid $77 Million in CAFE Penalties in 2016

That would probably still leave a trade imbalance especially when things have a different values.

Ironically though, even with the chicken tax, the trade deficit is still not in the US's favor with most countries we trade with since we import more into the US than other countries import our products in theirs.

In 2017 we imported $2.895 trillion and only exported $2.329 trillion. That is a $566 billion trade deficit.