Vietnam News & Analysis

A movement of manufacturing to Vietnam that began in President Trump’s first term is accelerating as sky-high U.S. tariffs block Chinese exports.

Chinese customs data, highlighted Monday by Robin Brooks of the Brookings Institution, revealed a significant acceleration of Chinese exports to Vietnam and Thailand that most analysts would posit are transshipments to America

On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, U.S. companies that have come to rely on Vietnam’s factories, like Apple and Nike, are in a bind because of Trump’s tariffs.

When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast stretches of coastal mangroves, once housing rich stocks of fish and birds, lay in ruins. Forests that had boasted hundreds of spe…

The majority of Earth's rare earth elements (REEs), which are crucial for industries like technology, defense, and green energy, are concentrated in a few key countries. China – Holds the largest reserves, estimated at 44 million metric tons (abou…

“The United States imposed substantial new tariffs reaching up to 3,521 per cent on solar imports from select Southeast Asian nations, supporting local manufacturers whilst creating additional challenges for the country's renewable energy sector. T…

Vietnam is Xi Jinping’s first stop on a three-nation Southeast Asia tour, as China and the U.S. escalate their trade war.

Xi arrived in Vietnam on Monday, and will visit Malaysia and Cambodia later this week. His visit comes just days after Trump put a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs.

BEIJING, April 14 (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping called for stronger industrial and supply chain cooperation with Vietnam and wider collaboration in emerging fields, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday, amid heightened trade tensions …

Stock markets of Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam deep in the red this year, despite rallying after reprieve on tariffs

Lego opened a $1 billion factory in Vietnam on Wednesday that it says will make toys without adding planet-warming gas to the atmosphere by relying entirely on clean energy.

The factory in the industrial area of Binh Duong, close to Ho Chi Minh Cit…

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Lego’s new Vietnam plant will help serve Asian markets in addition to its production site in Jiaxing, China, amid strong toy demand.

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Apple stock dropped 19% in the wake of President Trump’s tariffs announcement, marking the worst three-day stretch for the company since 2001.

Despite promises made by Southeast Asia governments, consumers in the region may not be able to afford American-made products.

White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said Monday that an offer by Vietnam to eliminate tariffs on U.S. imports would not be enough for the administration to lift its new levies announced last week. "Let's take Vietnam. When they come to us …

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/peter-navarro-says-vietnams-0percent-tariff-offer-is-not-enough-its-the-non-tariff-cheating-that-matters.html White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said Monday that an offer by Vietnam to eliminate tariffs on U.S. imp…

Stocks screens are a sea of red as investors register deepening concerns over the impact of US tariffs on the global economy. Are countries rushing to offer the US concessions on trade? So far, it seems only Vietnam and Cambodia have started talks to l…

Vietnam, which has increasingly become a key manufacturing and export alternative to China, was slapped with one of the highest tariff rates worldwide.

Vietnam is also seeking a delay to the 46% import levies announced by President Donald Trump earlier this week.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-06/vietnam-offers-to-remove-all-tariffs-on-us-after-trump-action “Vietnam has offered to remove all tariffs on US imports after Donald Trump announced a 46% levy on the southeast Asian nation, according t…

In recent years Vietnam has forged strategic and economic links with the United States, its former foe, making the steep tariff rate all the more of a shock.

Here’s the key: a trade deficit only tracks the flow of goods and services, not who owns the goods, who profits from them, or where the capital ultimately goes. If American companies outsource manufacturing abroad (say, to Vietnam or China), then impor…

President Donald Trump announced extensive tariffs on April 2, with the possibility to dramatically change costs of essential everyday items for American consumers. He has unveiled tariffs for 60 countries including Cambodia, Vietnam, China, and the E…

Companies that embraced supply-chain diversification by moving some operations to economies geographically close to China now face an array of bad options.