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U.S. President Donald Trump told Vietnam’s apical person helium would “instruct the applicable agencies” to region the state from a database restricted from accessing precocious U.S. technologies, Vietnam’ s authorities announced Saturday (February 21, 2026).
The 2 leaders met successful idiosyncratic for the archetypal clip astatine the White House connected Friday (February 20, 2026), aft Mr. Lam attended the inaugural gathering of Mr. Trump’s “Board of Peace” successful Washington.
“Donald Trump said helium would instruct the applicable agencies to soon region Vietnam from the strategical export power list,” Hanoi’s Government News website said.
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The 2 countries were locked successful protracted commercialized negotiations erstwhile the U.S. Supreme Court ruled galore of Mr. Trump’s sweeping tariffs were illegal.
Three Vietnamese airlines announced astir $37 cardinal successful purchases this week, successful a bid of contracts signed with U.S. aerospace companies.
Fledgling hose Sun PhuQuoc Airways placed an bid for 40 of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners, a long-haul aircraft, with an estimated full worth of $22.5 billion, portion nationalist bearer Vietnam Airlines placed an $8.1 cardinal bid for astir 50 Boeing 737-8 aircraft.
When Mr. Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs successful April, Vietnam had the third-largest commercialized surplus with the U.S. of immoderate state aft China and Mexico, and was targeted with 1 of the highest rates successful Mr. Trump’s tariff blitz.
But successful July, Hanoi secured a minimum 20% tariff with Washington, down from much than 40%, successful instrumentality for opening its marketplace to U.S. products including cars.
Mr. Trump signed disconnected connected a planetary 10% tariff connected Friday (February 20) connected each countries hours aft the Supreme Court ruled galore of his levies connected imports were illegal.
