Trump's tariffs create fear and uncertainty in Vietnam's factories

For the Vietnam's legion of factory workers, the mathematics of livelihood was complicated enough before President Trump announced a rich tariff for the goods they earned.

Nguyen Thi Tuyet Hanh worked six days a week for almost a year after her husband lost his job in 2023. She had no other choice to feed her four children and keep her at school.

“It was brutal,” said Ms. Hanh, 40,. Her husband works full -time again in a factory, but Mr. Trump's plan to lend a tariff of 46 percent on imports from Vietnam, hangs over her family, who lives in a number of specific apartment buildings on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City.

“My family has experienced this difficult time -I don't want to live it again,” said Ms. Hanh, who, as a line manager, deserves 577 US dollars a month, the 138 workers who supervise the shoes for Nike, the French sporting goods company Salomon and other global brands.

The fear is on your factory floor and lives with the sum of sewing machines that sew the fabric for shoes that are shipped to the USA. Mr. Trump held the tariff in Vietnam and similar taxes for dozens of other countries for 90 days. But it is hardly important here. The destabilizing view that the tariffs will be set again is already on Vietnam's economic growth, which is based on the American consumers.