Intra-Asia disruption threatening Vietnam’s factories and export growth

Factories in Vietnam and southern China are working through their lunar new year holidays to catch up with production backlogs.
But getting goods to market is a challenge, thanks to bottlenecks in shipping capacity.
For Vietnam, the problem is more pronounced, as it also threatens the inbound flow of raw materials for manufacturing, which could slow the country’s meteoric rise and force some sourcing back to China, warned Akhil Nair, VP global …

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China-US trade war providing a business bonus for South-east Asian exporters

Shippers serving the US import market may have already begun voting with their feet and moving production out of China in response to the looming threat of a full-blown trade war between the world’s largest two economies.
The 90-day abeyance period agreed by Donald Trump and Xi Jingping on the sidelines of the recent G20 meeting in Buenos Aires may be too late for some in the trade, as new research from …

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