At the start of the US-Vietnam trade negotiations, the Vietnamese Ministry of Trade denounced Trump's "equal tariffs" as unreasonable.

Zhixin financial app learned that as Vietnam's Ministry of Trade launched bilateral trade negotiations with the US government in Vietnam, it deemed the Trump administration's so-called "equivalent tariffs" as unreasonable. The department requested domestic companies and associations in Vietnam to write letters to officials in relevant US trade departments, complaining about Trump's tariff policy towards Vietnam and expressing support for long-term cooperation with US partners to seek their support in maintaining the normal flow of Vietnamese goods to the US.