On September 15th, Vietnam's Minister of Industry and Trade, Nguyen Hong Dien, sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. In the letter, Minister Dien urged the U.S. to reconsider its decision to deny equivalency status to 12 Vietnamese seafood harvesting methods. He emphasized that this decision could significantly disrupt bilateral trade and jeopardize the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fishermen and workers.