When the tire industry completely disappears from America, there will be FReepers who will insist that we must have tariffs on foreign tires to make American tire-making competitive. Episodes like this one will be forgotten and the “greedy” American consumer will be blamed instead.
Section. 8.The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Duties and imposts are "taxes" imposed on imported goods from foreign countries.
My position is that the Founders were intelligent people, and if there were no place whatsoever for duties and imposts that they would have not included them in the powers of Congress.
I favor duties and imposts on goods imported from foreign countries who have distorted the free market. If they use slave or slave equivalent labor, then they have distorted the market. If they use regulation or fees against our imports or refuse our imports, then they have distorted a free market. If they have the government subsidize the production of any good, then they have distorted the market.
To compensate for the distortion of a free market, I endorse duties and imposts.
In short, I agree with the U.S. Constitution. There is a time and place for these things.