Vietnam to USA Freight Forwarding

Vietnam has become one of the largest sources of US imports, and what it ships fills containers: wooden and upholstered furniture from the Binh Duong area (now part of Ho Chi Minh City) and Dong Nai, apparel and footwear, shrimp and pangasius, coffee, cashews and pepper, and a fast-growing range of machinery and electrical equipment from the industrial zones around Hanoi, Bac Ninh and Hai Phong. Most of it leaves through two gateways. In the south, the deep-water terminals at Cai Mep–Thi Vai — now also part of Ho Chi Minh City — take direct mainline sailings to Los Angeles and Long Beach, with the river terminals at Cat Lai feeding through Singapore. In the north, Hai Phong and its deep-water port at Lach Huyen serve the electronics and machinery belt. The tariff picture changed twice in 2026: the IEEPA tariffs, including the 20% rate on Vietnamese goods and the 40% rate on transshipped goods, ended when they were struck down in February, and since 24 July 2026 most Vietnamese goods carry a 12.5% Section 301 layer instead. What has not changed is the scrutiny of where goods were really made.

Last reviewed: October 2026

Offices and representative on this lane:Glendale, USA

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AGF Advantage on This Lane

We work through WCA partner agents in Vietnam; AGF has no office there. Our partner agents handle factory pickup, export customs and container loading in the south and the north, AGF books the ocean or air freight as an FMC-licensed NVOCC, and the US entry is filed by our licensed customs brokers, with our Glendale team running delivery and partner warehousing near the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. What we add on this lane is origin diligence. Many Vietnamese supply chains still run on Chinese components and fabric, and our own office in Foshan knows those supply chains — which Chinese products carry antidumping and countervailing duty orders, and which do not — so we ask the origin questions before the booking rather than after CBP does. We will not ship cargo whose origin documents we cannot stand behind. Quotes are door to door, with exclusions listed up front.

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