By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-03-26 02:26:38 | Updated at 2025-03-26 13:17:01
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Vietnam will cut its tariffs on several US products, the head of the Finance Ministry’s tax policy department has said.
Among the cuts, the tariff on American liquefied natural gas will be cut to 2 per cent from 5 per cent, on automobiles to 32 per cent from a range of 45 per cent to 64 per cent, and on ethanol to 5 per cent from 10 per cent, Nguyen Quoc Hung said in a statement posted on the ministry’s website late on Tuesday.
Hung said Vietnam would also remove its tariff on American ethane. He said the decree on the tariff cuts would be ready within this month and would take effect straight after.
The cuts are part of a series of measures the Southeast Asian industrial hub has flagged in recent weeks to reduce its trade surplus with Washington, which exceeded US$123 billion last year.
US President Donald Trump has promised an April 2 announcement on tariffs that he said would be a “Liberation Day” for the US economy. The action aims to shrink a US$1.2 trillion global goods trade deficit by raising US tariffs to levels charged by other countries and counteracting their non-tariff trade barriers.
