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In general, incentivizing local production is good for many reasons, like jobs and the environment. It's also one of the (not the only!) reason Switzerland is so wealthy.
I think the problem is that you have to transition and not just impose it immediately. US produced goods often aren't currently affordable to the average American. Make foreign goods unaffordable through tariffs too, and many people will be between a rock and a hard place.
It's also terrible for international relationships to basically cut economic ties at such short notice.
An alternative would be subsidies for small businesses rather than huge global ones, and for sustainable local farming.
Just my two cents as a European who tried to keep up.
Instead, america gives multiple massive subsidies to industrial farmers growing corn for oil additives and cow feed and gives next to nothing to small famers growing food for human consumption.
And they give business relief and tax breaks to multi billion dollar mega corporations and proportionally much much less to small businesses.
It also makes absolutely no sense to put tariffs on products and raw materials that are literally not available locally, e.g. if they are only mined in certain parts of the world or required specialized knowledge not available locally.
And incomes tend to lag price increases by quite a bit, so the average consumer gets screwed in the meantime. Assuming tariffs are offset by increased pay (due to increased revenue), it shouldn't matter a ton longer term, but the initial price shock will have a ripple effect across the economy as people struggle to keep up.