Interesting perspective, I'm not 100% for tariffs but China in particular has been flooding the west with cheap substandard goods for years, often produced by what can only be referred to as slave labour. They have been taking advantage of the employment law in the west which requires organisations to take care of their employees. This is not fair trade, it's exploitation. I can therefore understand why people would support tariffs, but a better approach would be to improve quality of products and employment standards in China and other eastern countries.
I have to laugh at the hypocrisy of the Chinese sometimes when they decide to reject the import of landfill into China. I can only imagine that the majority of that landfill contains prematurely broken and irreparable products that originated from China. It's an environmental disaster no matter where the landfill ends up. We need to return to a world where disposability is frowned upon but the Chinese economy has been build on cheap disposable products. The tariffs are perhaps a wake up call for them.