don t try and take his daily tour of the factory floor he likes what he sees he runs the vietnamese subsidiary of sparks on the u.s. based electronics company and business is booming right now ever since the americans raise tariffs on imports from china more and more companies have been seeking to move their production from there to other countries and many of these are looking just across the border into vietnam the last six months an acceleration i would say it s about two to three times more than the last twenty four months so . you know the trade challenges you know keith people motivations to do it fast you know conservatively instead of having the transfer of land they want to do it right away like yesterday they want to move. to trade conflict is expected to boost vietnam s economy by an additional half a percentage point. but even before the u.s. china dispute did not become a hot spot for foreign investors they say factors that make vietnam attractive are