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Nike’s Vietnam Manufacturing Shift Puts It in Trump’s Tariff Crosshairs

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For the past two decades, Nike has worked to gradually diversify its manufacturing beyond China, with Vietnam emerging as the company’s most important market for production. On Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump announced reciprocal tariffs that will impact Vietnamese-made goods more than those from almost any other country.

The impact of those import tariffs will be far-reaching across the global economy—shortly after the announcement an S&P 500 ETF fell 2%. They will particularly impact the companies that import the bulk of their goods from the countries with the highest rates. On Trump’s list, Vietnam had the fourth highest rate at 46%, trailing only Cambodia (49%), Laos (48%) and Madagascar (47%).

In fiscal 2024, factories in Vietnam manufactured 50% of all Nike Brand footwear, by far its largest market. Factories in Vietnam also manufactured 28% of all Nike Brand apparel, also its largest market.

The second most important manufacturing market for Nike is likely China. The country accounts for 16% of Nike apparel manufacturing, second only to Vietnam, and 18% of footwear, third behind Vietnam and Indonesia. Trump’s new tariffs include a 34% rate on China-made goods, but White House officials told CNBC that the those tariffs would come on top of the 20% already imposed on Chinese imports. That implies a true tariffs rate of 54%. 

Nike stock (NYSE: NKE) fell 7% in after-market trading.

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Representatives for Nike didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment. Tariffs only came up once on the company’s latest earnings call on March 20, with CFO Matthew Friend mentioning specifically that the company’s latest guidance included newly implemented tariffs on imports from Mexico and China. Those tariffs are separate from the ones announced this week.

Throughout the 1990s Nike was frequently criticized for the labor conditions of its overseas factories, particularly those in China. Since then, the company has worked to diversify its supply chain. It’s not alone—U.S. companies of all sorts have spread out their manufacturing in that span, some searching for lower prices, others looking to insulate themselves from potential volatility and geopolitical relations between the U.S. and Chinese governments.

Vietnam quickly emerged as Nike’s most important market for manufacturing. In 2001, for example, Vietnam accounted for just 13% of the company’s footwear goods and was not included in a list of 12 countries that accounted for most of Nike’s apparel manufacturing, according to SEC filings. A decade later, in 2011, Vietnamese factories were making 39% of Nike’s footwear, its biggest market, and appeared to be third for apparel. It became the company’s most important country for apparel manufacturing for the first time in 2020  and has remained at the top in both categories ever since.

The Nike filings only list where the goods are made, and not where they are sold. That’s likely more relevant in China—many companies are more intentional about selling China-manufactured goods in China—than it is in Vietnam, which has a population that is about 1/14th of its northern neighbor.

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Indonesian factories accounted for 27% of Nike footwear in 2024, according to the filing, which put it in front of China and behind Vietnam. Trump’s announcement included a 32% tariff on Indonesian goods. The third most important country for manufacturing Nike clothing was Cambodia, at 15% of the company’s apparel. The Cambodian tariff rate of 49% was the highest of any rate announced Wednesday.

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Prosecutors in Switzerland ordered Jacques Moretti to be detained after investigators questioned him and his wife, Jessica Moretti. Officials are looking into whether negligence played a role in last week’s deadly fire at their bar, Le Constellation.

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January 9, 2026

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Greenland leaders push back on Trump’s calls for US control of the island: ‘We don’t want to be Americans’

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Greenland’s leadership is pushing back on President Donald Trump as he and his administration call for the U.S. to take control of the island. Several Trump administration officials have backed the president’s calls for a takeover of Greenland, with many citing national security reasons.

“We don’t want to be Americans, we don’t want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders,” Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and four party leaders said in a statement Friday night, according to The Associated Press. Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory and a longtime U.S. ally, has repeatedly rejected Trump’s statements about U.S. acquiring the island.

Greenland’s party leaders reiterated that the island’s “future must be decided by the Greenlandic people.”

“As Greenlandic party leaders, we would like to emphasize once again our wish that the United States’ contempt for our country ends,” the statement said.

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TRUMP SAYS US IS MAKING MOVES TO ACQUIRE GREENLAND ‘WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT’

Greenland has rejected the Trump administration’s push to take over the Danish territory. (Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty Images; Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump was asked about the push to acquire Greenland on Friday during a roundtable with oil executives. The president, who has maintained that Greenland is vital to U.S. security, said it was important for the country to make the move so it could beat its adversaries to the punch.

“We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not,” Trump said Friday. “Because if we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor.”

Trump hosted nearly two dozen oil executives at the White House on Friday to discuss investments in Venezuela after the historic capture of President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3.

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“We don’t want to have Russia there,” Trump said of Venezuela on Friday when asked if the nation appears to be an ally to the U.S. “We don’t want to have China there. And, by the way, we don’t want Russia or China going to Greenland, which, if we don’t take Greenland, you can have Russia or China as your next-door neighbor. That’s not going to happen.” 

Trump said the U.S. is in control of Venezuela after the capture and extradition of Maduro. 

Nielsen has previously rejected comparisons between Greenland and Venezuela, saying that his island was looking to improve its relations with the U.S., according to Reuters.

A “Make America Go Away” baseball cap, distributed for free by Danish artist Jens Martin Skibsted, is arranged in Sisimiut, Greenland, on March 30, 2025. (Juliette Pavy/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Monday that Trump’s threats to annex Greenland could mean the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

“I also want to make it clear that if the U.S. chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops. Including our NATO and thus the security that has been provided since the end of the Second World War,” Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV2.

That same day, Nielsen said in a statement posted on Facebook that Greenland was “not an object of superpower rhetoric.”

Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen stands next to Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen during a visit to the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen on April 28, 2025. (Liselotte Sabroe/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)

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White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller doubled down on Trump’s remarks, telling CNN in an interview on Monday that Greenland “should be part of the United States.”

CNN anchor Jake Tapper pressed Miller about whether the Trump administration could rule out military action against the Arctic island.

“The United States is the power of NATO. For the United States to secure the Arctic region, to protect and defend NATO and NATO interests, obviously Greenland should be part of the United States,” he said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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What Canada, accustomed to extreme winters, can teach Europe

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Euronews spoke to Patrick de Bellefeuille, a prominent Canadian weather presenter and climate specialist, on how Europe could benefit from Canada’s long experience with snowstorms. He has been forecasting for MétéoMédia, Canada’s top French-language weather network, since 1988.

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