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Again, problem isn't tariffs per se, but the incredibly imbecilic execution.
After USA spent about a century coercing the current "free trade", to push its less desired jobs abroad with outsourcing, etc leading to dismantling of labor rights and protections worldwide, through its enforcement and wreckers like WTO, IMF, etc but also actual wars and coups worldwide, to get situations like NAFTA where USA's corporations and similar get the profits while the neighbors provide the labor, the Banana Wars (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars), Pinochet, the Operation Gladio coups, etc, etc, all to force the globalization which devastates workers in especially but not only Southeast Asia with sweatshops and environmental devastation only have the output shipped worldwide for even more environmental impact, all to maximize profits for USA corporations like Nike, Coka Cola, Kraft, etc,
BUT, this isn't like a common gradual push to restore buying local for union rights, the environment and so on, but is instead shock treatment, bullying and aggression, presented with aid of presumably intentional lies (Singapore's tariffs are AFAIK 0 instead of 10 and EU's around 1 instead of 39).
There is NO time table to build prepared capacity in USA to produce what's now rariffed, so will just shock boost domestic stagflation.