We currently have crazy import tariffs on Chinese made automobile tires. The result has been 1,200 jobs saved and consumers paid an extra billion dollars for tires.
This fits into a general patterns of political problems, where small groups benefit greatly at the expense of much larger groups who all suffer very slightly. It's like the plot in Superman to steal fraction of a penny from everyone.
If you can negotiate a tax-break for your industry then it'll give you millions, but millions or even billions divided up amongst the whole nation is hard to spot for an individual.
And those 1,200 jobs are just the visible ones. The extra billion dollars probably came with further negative effects somewhere else.
(German coal mining was (or still is?) in similar territory: the subsidy necessary to keep a few mining jobs around was way higher than what those guys got paid.)
There is no free lunch with trade.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ta...