Why Tariffs are confusing me

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Ok...our market is down, so is yours. Where is the money going then? With interest rates dipping it may be Bitcoin or Gold or Real Estate....All three to a great extent non productive. But let us look at tariffs...and India. Majority of us are not rich enough to afford multiple cars per household. We manage with just one for the entire family. We do have two wheelers, but with petrol as costly as it is, we don't look at guzzlers for our vehicles. Our roads are not as straight and not as wide to facilitate faster speed, and we allow cows, dogs, etc. on roads, along with fastest vehicles...there are carts and wrongly parked vehicles which narrow our roads further. So automobiles...very little demand. What else can the US export to India? Most of the things fall in luxury category. Majority of us eat in steel plates, which can easily be passed on to next generations. We don't require corning and other products. We also do not hanker for brand names. So what can the US sell to us to get its pound of flesh Food, we can import from neighboring countries or even Europe, since transporting it across seas is time consuming and expensive. No study of the market out here has really been done by Donald Thumb and his cronies. Didn't someone say Thumb had filed for quite a few bankruptcies...there you know his business acumen. They just want to sell what is produced in the US to us, but there is no ready market here. Everything in the US is produced in large scale. All businesses are large. Here, we have small smaller smallest. So the smallest even if it sinks, there is someone to gobble it up, and grow a tad larger. And the small, if it loses the contract, can always enter into agreement with the smallest for offloading something, and reducing costs. So losses at this end will not be as much.............I feel. Especially since the smallest ones have their own markets.... Given the present situation, I for one cannot see, how the US will benefit in anyway with the tariffs. In Donald Thumb's shoes, I would have increased the tariffs in phases....check the profitability of the action at each step. That way, if the move was not advantageous, I could stop or retrace more easily. Sudden imposition of large tariffs, obviously puts large companies in serious problems for sourcing material. Whatever Thumb is doing is ...well....I would never do it that way. He may make America eat an humble pie, and if that happens, he won't be in a position to dictate terms, and the terms maybe even worse.