That is a different type of specialisation. What it has to do with free market?

It's just one example

Technological specialisation increases productivity.

I mean, autarky is just generally a poor idea

Every state has a maximum amount of production they can hypothetically achieve in each field, limited by resources, labor, capital, and so on

We're not in a post scarcity economy

It is not. What Autarky does is something like social welfare. Everyone survives, so overall quality is lower. Free market destroys weak competitors so quality is higher. But this higher quality also entails destruction of relatively poor business owners, who cannot compete with MNCs.

So, you destroy businesses today and benefit tomorrow

Equal tariffs would also produce a large amount of immediate damage as well

Imports/exports are required to sustain each state and its current quality of life

They won't. If they are imposed on nations which export more to the country putting tariffs. That is why Trump's tariffs are a success.

A success?

It's going to harm farmers in the long run

It already is, actually

Exports are going to decrease

You were talking short term. You said immediate damage

Both short and long term

In short term they are benefiting USA

Even then, you're more or less saying that short term benefits outweigh producing something sustainable in the long term

No. I am saying that they are theoretically equal.

Not particularly...

International trade, particularly without tariffs, shifts out the ultimate amount of potential productivity possible

It'd force some short term shifts in specialization (potentially, domestic industries don't need to pay transportation fees as high and would have shorter delays in shipment, so there are a lot of domestic boons), but in the long run, would result in greater overall productivity

That overall loss is equalised by earlier boons and increase in government exchequer. You can literally prove it via mathematical equations

Over time, however, the amount of damage caused would continually increase

Leading to the overall loss being by far greater

And a large portion of the immediate benefit perceived was due to rapid, last minute purchases of products before the tariffs were put in place

Hell, there's got to be a massive bailout now due to lost sales by farmers

$12,000,000,000 US dollars going straight to that

Do you know what is cost of capital?

I do

So, that continually increasing damage, if discounted would be actually decreasing.

Because it would be divided by exponential series

And exponential series is one of the fastest growing series that naturally exists

exponential series?

1/r^n

I know what exponentiality is

So? You know that for every passing year, we increase exponent by 1

ehm, what?

Discount rate effect increases exponentially.