Steve’s Barking; Maybe American manufacturing isn’t that good?

Because my country has to put a tariff on certain goods such as steel (especially  steel ) in order to protect  manufacturing of those products as if we were a third world country one has to assume that those factories aren’t better at manufacturing then the manufactured product in foreign countries and they might be just be worse.
If a foreign country has to help their manufacturing plants with subsidies and we want to level(?) the playing field go tit for tat after taking the case to WTO.
If a country is  dumping limit the amount of the manufactured goods that the product can’t be beat no matter how good the American product is then limit the amount of that product is allowed into the U.S.
My nose twitching tells that the real case is that those American companies can’t compete on the world stage.
Never thought I would see the day my country couldn’t complete.