We should, which is why nearly every economist says Harris is the better candidate
I understand that but the economists happen to be wrong when they say we shouldn't protect American jobs. It's why it's a soft science and you see Keynesians disagreeing with the Chicago school disagreeing with the Austrians disagreeing with Marxist economists.
These are the same reason that economists claimed Nafta was great and wouldn't destroy manufacturing and then we see a decline in American manufacturing.
Tarries are a tool and they can be good or bad. For example when Chinese television makers sold at a loss to destroy every single American TV maker.
It's a good thing. We shouldn't be competing with slave labor. It's bad enough that women demand why buy rings mined from slave labor and brag that their husband bought them a bigger ring.
It's this "my slave is better than yours attitude"
I know that economists probably have their heart in the right place but slave labor is bad as is a good portion of child labor as is adult labor in really shitty conditions. If i have to pay 25% extra for an American TV and not have that guilt of contributing to slave labor than that is a good thing even if you have 10 million economists bragging that slave labor is good for the economy and that we shouldn't combat bullshit like that with strategically placed tarrifs.
Hell some of us work I'm manufacturing and would also prefer to not be homeless as well.