Trade Deal Leaves Vietnam With Questions and One Big Challenge
A key element of the deal first unveiled by US President Donald Trump is a differentiated tariff setting, with a 20% American surtax on Vietnamese-produced goods and a 40% levy on those trans-shipped from elsewhere through Vietnam. That's largely aimed at China, which produces many of the inputs companies operating in its southern neighbor use for assembling their products.
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