Because this document, sold to the nation as a reciprocal tariff agreement, is not a partnership. It is a paternity suit. India’s calibration: The art of saying noConsider, finally, the agreement India concluded with the United Kingdom in July 2025. Bangladesh has always been exquisitely sensitive to American tariff policy. It can accept the paternity suit as an inheritance and govern within its constraints, administering the terms of its own subordination.
