Protest against the injustice of men and women apparel clothing import business tax rate to prosecute U.S. Government

According to U.S. media reports, ColumbiaSportswear, SteveMadden and Asics and several U.S. apparel manufacturers apparel for men and women in the grounds of unfair import tax court, therefore properly returned to the U.S. government imposed nearly a billion dollars in tariffs.
The same rate of imports of different styles of men and women is very common. For example, imports of men's wool clothing tax rate is zero, while the women's rate of 8.5%. Men's bathrobe import tariff rate of 28%, while the rate for women is only 12%. This gender-based differences in the rate of man-made footwear Leather gloves in there. From the point of view the overall level of U.S. imports of women's products (average) tariff rate of 14%, while the corresponding men's products (average) tariff rate of 9%.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit claimed that the product of discrimination against women of tax rates, the U.S. government last year in imported underwear, silk shirts custom shopping bags wholesale and leather footwear were improperly obtained on the $ 2.5 million, 16 million and $ 1 7,000 millions of dollars in customs revenues; the same year, men's products for the U.S. Customs for discriminatory tax on cotton shirts from improper access to the 93 million dollars in tariff revenues. If you win the lawsuit, plaintiffs may be nearly 10 billion dollars in tax rebates. Clothing were also from low tax rates in the future beach totes wholesale to further profit.
Approved by the U.S. Congress every year to determine the gender-based unreasonable tariff rates. Apparel manufacturers and importers of such differences in tax rates have been artificially submissive. For them, the import tax rates of male and female clothing does not cause three kinds of unpleasant associations results: forced to stop production of high-rate clothing, raise its price or increase the price without leaving the company's profit decreased. The first two conditions are limiting consumer choice. Unreasonable price difference ultimately passed on to consumers.
Businesses in the complaint that the plaintiff, the U.S. government man-made gender-based differences in tax rates violates the U.S. constitutional principles of due process and equal protection principles. Plaintiff's lawyers pointed out that such a tariff in the field of sex discrimination is insulting, outrageous practice.
Of course, ColumbiaSportswear companies such litigation may also be counterproductive, causing more bad results, that the U.S. government against lawsuits and decided to increase imports low tax rates the way sex "unified import tariffs. This possibility may be small, but it is exist.
Trial of the case provides an opportunity to answer the mystery of one of the largest retail industry, that is why similar clothing, men's and women's prices vary so much? The lawyer's study found that rates of gender-based differences in the case of man-made, from the mid 19th century in the United insulated lunch bags wholesale States exists. Gender discrimination and protect the U.S. apparel industry is likely to be the reason for this phenomenon. Obviously, the outcome of litigation on the U.S. apparel industry, as well as American society has a long history of the "battle of the sexes have a profound impact.
U.S. Trade Representative's office and the Justice Department are still pending in the case refused to gender differences and the tariff rate for comment.