I'm at a compete loss to understand the rationale behind these blanket-coverage tariffs.

Even if one does not agree with tariffs one can understand putting a tariff on foreign goods that one wants manufacture locally—goods of strategic importance etc. but to penalize local consumers on low-tech day-to-day items that local industry could tool up for at any time without much effort seems counterproductive.

If tariffs must be implemented then they should be very carefully tailored.

It’s like a random number generator at this point.

No rhyme or reason just shouting larger numbers at the clouds.

The Chinese people are suffering from this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43703166

USA faces 245% charges on imported goods from China. FTFY