Vietnam's PM wants to convince Trump to keep Obama-era trade ties

HANOI (May 30): Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has a tough task when he visits the White House this week: Convince President Donald Trump to advance trade ties that blossomed under the Obama administration.

To do so, Phuc plans to highlight all the US jobs his nation supports through imports of American goods like airplanes, engine turbines and maize. Vietnam respects Trump’s exit from a Pacific trade pact agreed to under Barack Obama, and the two sides are working on “new mechanisms” to boost bilateral trade, Phuc said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Haslinda Amin.

“Vietnamese imports from the United States have increased significantly,” Phuc said during the May 27 meeting at his office in Hanoi. “We will sign billions of dollars worth of deals with American firms and import lots of meaningful high-value products from the United States that will help create American jobs."

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