News / Vietnam anxious to attract US exports before catching Trump's tariff eye

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04/10/2019

With a ballooning US trade deficit and fearful of potential Trump tariffs, Vietnam is scrambling to import more products that are ‘made in America’.

President Trump this year described Vietnam as “almost the single worst abuser of everybody” in regard to trade, and imposed huge tariffs on some of the country’s steel products.

Boosted in part by the US-China trade war, Vietnam’s exports to the US jumped 33% year on year, to $36bn, in the first seven months this year, according to the latest ...