Maybe you can understand this law passed by the first congress,
"Whereas it is necessary for that support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares and merchandise:"[1]
< sarc > Those evil founding fathers weren't good gloBULLists. Man, who knew. < /sarc >
I agree with Marx that free trade upends things...that it can upend the social order. It, for example, led to the fall of Communism in many countries when we won the Cold War.
It can also lead to high income middle aged American men finding out that their skills are obsolete.
The founding fathers believed revenue was needed. The historically easiest way to do this was tariffs. Other ways are available to us.