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Vietnam Economy Expands Despite Tariffs, Beating Estimates
A worker at a metals factory in Di An City, Binh Duong Province, Vietnam.
Photographer: Linh Pham/BloombergVietnam’s economy grew faster than expected last quarter as manufacturing, investment and trade gained momentum despite President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Gross domestic product expanded 8.46% in the October-December period from a year earlier, according to data from the National Statistics Office in Hanoi on Monday. That beat all estimates in a Bloomberg survey, with a median of 7.7%.