Vietnam has engaged in weeks of intense diplomacy with the US — the largest export market of the trade-reliant country — as it seeks to avert a threatened 46% tariff, which was later wound back to 10% for 90 days to allow time for talks.
Vietnam said it is responding to US demands with “goodwill” and has sent a written reply to US trade requests after the Trump administration vowed to keep pressuring the Southeast Asian nation to reduce its role in China supply chains.
At talks in Paris, the two sides agreed on the need to speed up progress ahead of the third round of official negotiations set to take place next week, according to a post on the Vietnam trade ministry’s website.
