India, March 19 -- On March 15, Malaysia became the first country to walk away from its trade deal with the US. The move followed the US Supreme Court's February 20 ruling that struck down the Trump administration's "reciprocal tariffs," removing the legal foundation of the strategy Washington had used to pressure trading partners into making concessions. With the tariff leverage gone, the agreements negotiated under it suddenly lost much of their value. The Supreme Court ruling has forced Washington to rethink its tactics. Unable to rely on sweeping countrywide tariffs, the administration is shifting toward narrower, product-specific investigations to retain leverage and discourage partners from abandoning the deals already signed. Yet t...