Posted on 03/13/2025 5:43:50 PM PDT by lasereye
Vietnam is reviewing its duties on U.S. goods, including on liquefied natural gas, agriculture and high-tech products, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told the U.S. ambassador to the country, a report on the government's website said.
The Southeast Asian industrial hub, which is heavily reliant on exports to the United States and has a large trade surplus with Washington, is scrambling to avoid reciprocal tariffs that the Trump administration has threatened globally to reduce America's trade deficit.
Chinh said "relevant ministries, sectors and agencies are actively reviewing import tariffs on goods from the United States, encouraging increased imports of key U.S. products that Vietnam needs, especially agricultural products, liquefied gas and high-tech products," the report on the government portal said.
Chinh met U.S. ambassador Marc Knapper on Thursday.
A delegation led by Vietnam's trade minister Nguyen Hong Dien is currently in the United States and plans meetings with top trade and energy officials with the aim of reaching deals, according to a Vietnam's government document seen by Reuters.
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“ Vietnam is reviewing its duties on U.S. goods, including on liquefied natural gas, agriculture and high-tech products, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told the U.S. ambassador to the country, a report on the government’s website said.”
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It’s smart to get ahead of potential developments and head off trouble before it arises. And I suspect Trump will appreciate this.
VN is possibly the original Realville..
I believe Vietnamese people are much smarter than Canadian people.
Who could have thought, all those years ago, that the dreaded Nam communists would turn out to be closet capitalists?
We should have known better than to try to patch over a French CF and needlessly lose so many men & women in the attempt...
Hindsight can be a bitch...
Free up South Vietnam and then we can talk.
There is no reason we can’t be very close friends with Vietnam.
There’s huge numbers of Vietnamese emigres (Viet Kieu) in the USA creating many cultural contacts. The people (particularly in the South) are very friendly to the USA. They want a counterweight to China next door. They can provide us many goods, instead of China.
The unintentional art of the deal.
People he’s not even mentioned are showing up to try to square things up.
It only took 50 years but we finally won the Viet Nam war.
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An interesting development. Also interesting that the msm mentioned it.
bttt
Wise words you posted. Some of those lost were my friends.
Oddly US warships now call on port to Vietnam. Vietnam fears China and in effect are defacto allies of the USA.
U.S. warships, including aircraft carriers, have made port calls in Vietnam, with the USS Ronald Reagan visiting Da Nang in June 2023 for a five-day visit, marking only the third such visit since diplomatic relations were established in 1995.
I only wish the bogeyman in my life (USMC 51-57 / 52-53 Korea) had such a reasonable long-term outcome...
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