The problem isn't necessarily tariffs so much as their being applied with absolutely no thought whatsoever (or alternately, with a lot of thought but by very stupid people - anything is possible from this White House)
We can tell this is the case, when we look at the list of all the tariffs being imposed. They are not broken down by country, but by top-level domain name. (eg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ypxnnyg7jo )
This is why islands which literally have no one living there and are populated entirely by penguins, eg the Heard and McDonald Islands, (.hm domain), and Diego Garcia (which is simply a military base on the British Indian Ocean Territory (.io)) are listed, as are Reunion (.re) and Gibraltar (.gi) which are listed separately from France and the UK.
They used a large language model (ie ChatGPT) to generate the list, didn't read it, and didn't notice the mistake because there is about as much human intelligence at work in the tariffs as there is permanently living on the H&M Islands.
