Of course it is. The point of the tariffs is not to help working class people but to funnel more profit to the owning class people. This is really and truly just bog standard capitalism doing what it does best when it is dying: manufacturing a crisis. In the name of profit.
As a firefighter myself, yeah we watched the price of our new apparatus (100’ rear mount platform quint) balloon to 1.6 million, and even after we locked THAT in they tried to skirt around the contract!