No, the choice is to pay for the tariffed imported good or pay an artificially high price for the domestic one.
I want to pay the market price for the good and the government is preventing that.
Right mojo, to buy or not to by is a choice. Paying income taxes on the sweat of your own labor is NOT a choice and punishable by fine and/or imprisonment. What you speak of is plain evil. Charging Americans an income tax at the same time letting 3rd world produced goods in duty free is Evil Evil Evil.
The artificiality you speak of is actually importing slave made goods duty free into a first world market like the USA. You have it backwards and upside down. The inflation cased by a tariff is more than made up for in the lowering of social welfare and other costs associated with destroyed communities and decaying industrial base. What that means is you take away a person means if survival. That is what free trade is doing to the average citizen.