Hanoi:
In the hope of avoiding punishing the American tariff, Vietnam has been designed to tighten the Chinese goods sent to the United States through his region and will tighten the control over sensitive exports to China, according to the person familiar with the case and a government document viewed by the Reuters.
The proposal, whose details are first mentioned by Reuters, came as American officials, including Pitter Navarro, the influential White House business advisor, expressed concern about the Chinese goods being sent to the US with the label “Made in Vietnam in Vietnam” which attracts less duties.
Vietnam has been offering sweetness for weeks that it hopes US President Donald Trump’s administration will persuade the US to take a benign approach to his vast business surplus. Instead, it was killed with 46% tariffs as part of Trump’s “Liberation Day” salvo.
While Tariff has been suspended for 90 days, the two countries agreed to start a conversation with the US trade representative on Wednesday after the meeting of a Vietnamese Deputy Minister.
According to three people with knowledge of the case, export-interest Vietnam is expecting not to reduce from 22% to 22% to 28%.
One of them stated that US officials had indicated that during a bilateral meeting in March, there was a possibility of border.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Trade and USTR’s office did not return the request for comment.
In announcing the introduction of trade talks with the US on Thursday, the Vietnam government said on its official portal that this “trade fraud” would be tightened. It did not provide nuances.
Since Trump’s first term, many multi-national firms have implemented the “China Plus a” policy to establish factories in Vietnam to reduce Beijing’s contact.
The South East Asian nation is in a tight place as it tries to preserve trade with the US, which is its largest export market and a security partner. At the same time, Hanoi does not want to oppose China, which is a top source of investment as well as a neighbor with which it has confronted the borders in the South China Sea.
Vietnam’s government office, a body that coordinates among its ministries, held an emergency meeting with government business experts on 3 April, hours after Trump’s announcement of tariff. According to a person at the meeting, Washington’s concerns were to address the alleged intellectual property theft and misuse of transmission.
In the meeting, the Ministry of Trade and Customs were asked to tighten control and they were given two weeks to prepare a plan to clamp on illegal transmission. The deadline can be extended by the end of April, the person said, saying that Hanoi wanted to be careful not to provoke China.
Illegal transmission refers to a country to send goods to a country to a nation facing less tariffs than a third country, with the product re -expanded, without which the price is added.
Vietnam’s government office and Customs Department did not respond to the request of comment.
Many of the goods exported by Vietnam to the west are Chinese -made inputs, and Chinese companies have also set up factories in the country to serve American customers.
In many examples, Vietnamese workers process goods, then legally sent to the US under “Made in Vietnam in Vietnam”.
Official trade data shows that in recent years Vietnam’s exports have been fuel by imports from China, which has been matched to Washington to Washington with the price and swings of exports.
However, US officials have alleged that China uses Vietnam as a drain to obtain less tariffs for items that do not have significant Vietnamese participation.
“China uses Vietnam to avoid tariffs,” Navarro said on Fox News on 6 April.
A person acquainted with the case said that in some examples, the ships carrying Chinese live in Vietnamese ports, which are sufficient enough to get documents to certify that they were made in Vietnam before leaving the product.
Reuters could not install immediately if Vietnam’s offer was enough to solve us on the misuse of transportment or if the country could widely deal with the problem.
A spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry said in response to the question of Reuters that the trade between Beijing and Hanoi is essentially a win.
Chips, satellites and aircraft
Vietnam is also implementing difficult measures on sensitive goods that pass through its region from America to China.
Hanoi intends to tighten control around the export of dual -use items such as semiconductors, which can be used for both civil and military purposes, according to a draft decree reviewed by the Reuters.
The decree, which was stated that it was prepared at the request of the Ministry of Trade, was not dated, but it includes an explanatory note on 4 April.
The document stated that major business partners requested Hanoi “Exports reduce the possibility of transferring these source technologies to third countries without the country’s consent.”
The US government considers leadership on artificial intelligence as a national priority and Washington has moved to cut access to China’s most advanced American-made chips.
Vietnam has now planned to introduce a new announcement and approval procedures for the trade of such products, according to the proposal.
Hanoi had earlier stated that it had discussed control over the export of dual -use goods with US authorities during the meetings in March.
Other technology -related gestures in the US include Hanoi’s acceptance for the Starlink Satellite Communication Service controlled by Trump’s billionaire colleague Elon Musk.
Musk appeared in the country to confirm Starlink’s ambitions, when he rebuilt the contents of an earlier Reuters article on 4 April, with the company’s plans for deployment of several ground stations.
Musk’s primacy in space is seen as a danger by Beijing, which is running to launch satellites in the lower-earth orbit.
Vietnam, a medium -sized country, whose diplomats have a long history of relationships with great powers, will host Chinese leader Xi Jinping next week.
According to two people familiar with the case, Xi’s visit is likely to approve China’s Comac aircraft with Vietnam’s aviation regulator.
It can open the way for lease and purchase by Vietnamese Airlines of Chinese jets, which have so far struggled to find foreign buyers.
This approval will follow the announcements of this week by agreements by Vietnamese Airlines on American loans for the purchase of Boeing aircraft.
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