{"id":72774,"date":"2025-07-07T09:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/07\/vietnam-trump-tariff-deal"},"modified":"2025-07-07T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:20:20","slug":"is-trump-tariff-deal-really-a-win-for-vietnam-or-a-way-of-punishing-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72774","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump tariff deal really a win for Vietnam \u2013 or a way of punishing China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US exports account for third of Vietnam\u2019s GDP and 40% tariff on so-called transshipments \u2013 products with Chinese input \u2013 means uncertainty for manufacturers<\/p>\n<p>As news spread that Vietnam would become just the second nation to reach an initial tariff agreement with Washington, shares in the clothing companies and manufacturers that have a large footprint in the country rose with optimism.<\/p>\n<p>Just hours later though, they declined sharply, as it became clear that the devil would be in the detail, and the most striking part of the deal might in fact be aimed at Vietnam\u2019s powerful neighbour China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/07\/vietnam-trump-tariff-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US exports account for third of Vietnam\u2019s GDP and 40% tariff on so-called transshipments \u2013 products with Chinese input \u2013 means uncertainty for manufacturersAs news spread that Vietnam would become just the second nation to reach an initial tariff agree&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,415,558,557,3280,45,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-donald-trump","category-global-economy","category-international-trade","category-tariffs","category-us-foreign-policy","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72775,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72774\/revisions\/72775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}