A sentiment shared by the US Congress for at least the first dozen Presidents.
It's arguable that it was through tariff that the enormous US Capital Stock was originally built. That and innovation.
Without tariffs the USA would have been left out if the industrial revolution. As it was we cut it pretty close. If the colonies went into the 19th century under British mercantilism the colonies would not have been industrialized. The industrial revolution would have been a solely European phenomenon with Japan thrown in for good measure. Hitler would rule the world.