There's inflation and there's inflation, and it's unfortunate we don't have separate terms.
If you had inflation typical of what we had during/after COVID with our economy being too hot with too much money floating around, tariffs would absolutely help. Preferably they'd be tariffs just on consumer products, and not things used for manufacturing. You'd raise them for a time and then lower them.
It's essentially the same thing as raising interest rates. You're taking money out of the economy.
If you had inflation typical of what we had during/after COVID with our economy being too hot with too much money floating around, tariffs would absolutely help. Preferably they'd be tariffs just on consumer products, and not things used for manufacturing. You'd raise them for a time and then lower them.
It's essentially the same thing as raising interest rates. You're taking money out of the economy.