Context: Vietnam has overtaken South Korea to become US’s 6th largest trading partner

Note however that, South Korea’s Samsung accounts for almost 20 percent of Vietnam’s exports. Furthermore, other big South Korean firms like LG and Huyndai also do a large portion of their manufacturing in Vietnam. Taking this into consideration, and maybe looking at what share of US imports from Vietnam belong to Vietnamese companies would likely tell a very different story.

Original reporting in this article from Vietnamnet referencing this article from the East Asia Forum.