Vietnam’s Growth Surges as Buyers Race to Beat Trump Tariffs

Vietnam’s growth accelerated in the second quarter as foreign buyers raced to avoid threatened tariffs of as much as 46% on sales to the US.

Gross domestic product rose 7.96% in the April-June period from a year earlier, according to data from the National Statistics Office in Hanoi on Saturday. That’s faster than the 6.85% median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of eight economists, and a revised 7.05% expansion in the first quarter.