Dhaka, Nov. 9 -- Bangladesh faces an increasingly precarious trade environment as global tariff regimes grow more volatile and geopolitics reshapes global supply chains, economists and policy analysts warned at a seminar in Dhaka on Sunday.

Speaking at the event, titled "Navigating Geopolitical Dynamics: Towards a Korea-Bangladesh Future Partnership" and organised by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, experts said that the era of predictable, rules-based global trade has given way to a transactional system in which tariffs are routinely deployed as political weapons.

"Tariffs are no longer just economic tools. They have become political instruments," said Professor Selim Raihan, noting that countries like Bangladesh-heavily dependent...