There are steelman arguments for tariffs, as can be seen by their regular use by every country in the world.

There are no steelman arguments for THESE tariffs, which are based on the premise of blindly assuming that all trade deficits across the board are bad, even for things the US is physically incapable of producing like various rare earths or diamonds, and then even more blindly setting tariffs based on the raw numbers of those trade deficits.