Vietnam is by far the biggest winner from the US-China trade war as importers look to divert their orders to bypass higher tariffs.
The Southeast Asian nation gained orders from trade diversion on tariffed goods equal to 7.9 percent of GDP in the year through the first quarter, according to a study by Nomura Holdings Inc economists Rob Subbaraman, Sonal Varma and Michael Loo.
Taiwan is a distant second among the winners, with gains equivalent to 2.1 percent of GDP.
Both economies gained far more from US tariffs on China than from Chinese duties on the US.
US and Chinese orders for more than half of the 1,981 tariffed products in the US-China trade dispute thus far have been rerouted, upending the winners and losers in the global supply chain, the analysis shows.
Nomura started with the official tariff lists of product codes and compared those with monthly trade data of the same goods — incorporating the levies on US$250 billion in Chinese goods and US$110 billion in US products.
The analysts estimated the gain for the world’s top 50 economies in the 12-month period.
The US’ tariffs on China have prompted import substitution primarily in electronic products, followed by furniture and travel goods.
For China’s duties on the US, orders for soybeans, aircraft, grains and cotton were most likely to be diverted away from the US to third-party economies like Chile and Argentina.
The Nomura analysts see potential for significantly more disruption in the electronics supply chains, given US-China disputes over technology, including US restrictions Huawei Technologies Co (華為) and ZTE Corp (中興).
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