Sri Lanka, April 20 -- As the global trade order undergoes seismic shifts under the return of Donald Trump's aggressive tariff policy, Sri Lanka finds itself in a familiar yet fragile position, it is again caught in the crosshairs of geopolitical brinkmanship with limited economic leverage. With Washington temporarily suspending sweeping tariffs on imports for 90 days, Colombo is scrambling to assess whether it can, or should, increase imports from the United States to reduce its widening trade imbalance.

A delegation of Sri Lankan officials will leave for the United States next week to discuss tariffs levied against Sri Lankan goods, according to Chairman and Chief Executive of the Export Development Board in Sri Lanka, Mangala Wijesing...