The Trump administration’s new trade deal with Vietnam aims to shut down any “backdoor” routes that allow Chinese goods to

The United States will place a lower-than-promised 20% tariff on many Vietnamese exports, Donald Trump said on Wednesday, cooling tensions with its tenth-biggest trading partner days before the U.S. president could raise levies on most imports.

Washington has agreed to lower its threatened 46 percent tariff on imports from Vietnam in return for increased access to the Vietnamese market.