Trump Meets Vietnamese Leader and Promises to Remove Hanoi from Ban Lists

SadaNews - U.S. President Donald Trump met late Friday night with the General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam, To Lam, and stated that he would work to remove Hanoi from the lists of countries banned from obtaining advanced American technology, according to a summary of the talks published on the Vietnamese government's news website.

Their first official meeting took place at the White House after Lam attended the inaugural meeting of the Peace Council in Washington.

The meeting followed the announcement of deals worth over $30 billion, under which Vietnamese airlines will purchase 90 aircraft from the American aerospace company Boeing.

Trump announced on Friday the imposition of new tariffs of 10 percent on most imports from all countries, after the Supreme Court annulled some of the comprehensive tariffs he had imposed earlier.