Asia’s emerging economies have been the big winners from the US-China trade war and they will gain even more if it escalates, according to the latest outlook from the Manila-based Asian Development Bank.
Exports from developing Asian countries to the US rose by 10 per cent over the previous year in the first half of 2019, even as exports from China fell by 12 per cent. Exports from Vietnam to the US jumped by 33 per cent and from Bangladesh by 13 per cent.
The report shows how the huge trade diversion effects caused by the US-China tariff war are creating winners and losers as they reshape global supply chains, with Bangladesh seizing market share in textiles and Vietnam in electronics.