Malesky interviewed by CNBC about U.S. tariffs on Vietnamese exports

Edmund Malesky, professor of political economy and director of the Duke Center for International Development, recently spoke to CNBC about Vietnam’s increase in manufacturing activity in recent years, if China has rerouted products to evade higher tariff rates, the China +1 Strategy, and more.

The CNBC article “How China used Vietnam to evade higher U.S. tariffs,” written by Carlos Waters and published on April 12, explores President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariff rate on goods imported into the U.S. from Vietnam and cites Malesky’s co-authored research on trade rerouting during the U.S.-China Trade War. 

In response to whether a portion of Vietnam’s rising exports to the U.S. may have been Chinese products that were rerouted to evade higher tariff rates, Malesky said he “estimates that 84% of Vietnam’s increase in manufacturing activity was value-added production.” He added, “But there’s a smaller part, maybe 16%, depending on how you measure it, which is rerouting, which became a concern for the United States.”

Accompanying the article is a video examining how China may use countries such as Vietnam as a side door to trade with the U.S. and includes interview clips with Malesky.

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