Trump lowers tariff on Vietnam in return for opening their market to US goods
President Trump put out more details of the negotiations with Vietnam in social media post on Wednesday.
It came after the president slapped a 46% tariff rate on the Southeast Asian country when he announced his global tariffs in April.
In his Truth Social post, the president announced a 20% tariff rate on "on any and all goods sent into our Territory" by Vietnam and a 40% tariff rate on "Transshipping" from Vietnam.
The higher tariff rate is likely an effort by the White House to disincentivize the movement of goods from China to Vietnam for a lower tariff rate, which is called transshipping.

In return, Trump said that Vietnam agreed to give the U.S. "TOTAL ACCESS to their Markets for Trade."
"In other words, they will “OPEN THEIR MARKET TO THE UNITED STATES,” meaning that, we will be able to sell our product into Vietnam at ZERO Tariff," he said in the post.
-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart






