New Delhi, July 8 -- A new analysis by the Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) indicates that President Donald Trump is utilising tariffs as a coercive mechanism in trade negotiations rather than as a foundation for building cooperative partnerships.

The report characterises Trump's trade strategy as fundamentally pressure-based, transforming traditional trade agreements into what GTRI describes as 'one-sided forced pacts.'

The research organisation notes that Trump's approach deliberately circumvents conventional Free Trade Agreement frameworks, which typically operate on principles of mutual tariff reductions and reciprocal benefits.

Under the current administration's strategy, partner countries are required to reduce their tarif...