News / Vietnam gains manufacturing ground – but will this provoke US tariffs?

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Vietnam is gaining ground as an alternative to China, but there are warnings that too-rapid growth could provoke tariffs from the new US administration.

Speaking to the Freight Buyers’ Club podcast, Tektronik Industries’ VP for global logistics, Alan Mctaggart, said that in 2018 the company began moving some of its manufacturing base into the South-east Asian country during the previous Trump government.

He said despite China having been a “easy, easy, easy” country in which to ...