Shortly after the deadline for negotiating tariffs, the president of the United States, Donald Trumpannounced on Wednesday the closure of a New commercial agreement with Vietnam, which includes a rate of 20% About the Imports of the Asian nation and a 40% About the Vietnamese merchandise shipments Through third countries, while giving Washington “Total Access” To your market.
“This agreement will involve great cooperation between the two countries. The conditions are that Vietnam will pay the United States a tariff of 20% over all the goods that enter our territory”he wrote on his network Social truth The tycoon.
The new covenant will include “The 40% tariff on any transford”Trump added in reference to the practice of sending products to USA through a third country to hide its true origin and thus avoid higher levies.
Vietnam It was exposed to a 46% tariff. Although it was not any country, the United States is the main export market of Vietnam, with U $ S57,000 million during the first five months of 2025. Clothing and footwear are among the main products sent to the country of America.
The president stressed that “Vietnam will do something unpublished: it will grant the United States the total access to its commercial markets. In other words, they will open their market to the United States, which means that we can sell our products in Vietnam without tariffs. “In addition, he warned that SUV SUV trucks,” how good performance they have in the United States, will be a magnificent incorporation into the various Vietnam products lines. “
He also considered “an authentic pleasure” to “personally treat” during negotiations with the general secretary of the ruler Communist Party of Vietnam, To lammaximum leader of the country.
World negotiation process
The new covenant with Vietnam is part of the dozens of negotiations that carry out Washington With its commercial partners during the pause to the badly called “Reciprocal tariffs” that the US president put in force at the beginning of April and then suspended until the July 9.
The White House said last week that it does not consider this period initially established to achieve new pacts and thus avoid the levies.
“The president can simply offer an agreement to these countries if they refuse to make us one before the deadline, and that means that he can choose a reciprocal tariff rate that he considers advantageous for the US,” said US government spokeswoman, then the US government spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt. He added, in addition, that the US trade representative, Jamieson Gerer“He is working very hard and has had very good and productive discussions” with several of the main commercial partners of Washington.
Source: Ambito
