Unless you don’t want to go straight to war with your biggest adversary. By applying it uniformly you aren’t singling anyone in particular out. That also lends itself to the rationale that the imbalance needs to be addressed not just an imbalance with one country.
Just how much do you think the USA imports from the EU every year? Does that even matter to you?
You think that our tariffing Poland and Guatemala and Cambodia is somehow camouflaging the fact that China is our biggest economic adversary? Are the Chinese themselves confused?
Trade war does not equal shooting war.