A free people shouldn't prop up regimes which are using unfair advantages to engage in their trade. Advantages such as slave labor or near-slave labor, or widespread pollution, etc. In cases such as that, there should be a moral dimension to trade policy.
High costs of doing business in America because of government interference is the root cause of businesses fleeing our country and identifying and attacking those root causes directly should be our focus. Tariffs do not address these issues at all - they cover them up.
Nevertheless, it would help if people understood that reciprocal tariffs are like each trading partner shooting themselves in the foot. I guess you could say that would make things “fair”.
If we had open trade free from government interference, America consumers would experience a higher standard of living whereas the other country’s tariffs lower their people’s standard of living. Not a level playing field. Unfair. So to make it a “level playing field”, lets lower our standard of living also. After all isn’t that how government works to make everything “fair”, by making everybody poor?