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The US accused more than 40 countries of transshipping Chinese goods to evade tariffs
The White House accused more than 40 countries, including Canada, Mexico and Japan, as well as the European Union, of being used as transit points through which Chinese goods are redirected to the US to evade higher tariffs.
Financial Times reports this, citing the White House report "The Great Transshipment Scam."
The report categorized more than 40 countries as jurisdictions with an elevated risk of illegal transshipment of Chinese goods.
For its baseline estimate of potential illegal rerouting, the White House used $60 billion per year — the rounded midpoint of the range $34,2–89,6 billion calculated by the US Council of Economic Advisers. Other government and private estimates cited in the report range from about $40 billion to $303 billion depending on methodology.
The schemes involve Chinese-origin goods passing through countries with lower US tariffs, where they may be repackaged, relabeled, or partially processed to change the declared country of origin. The White House says such practices have become more widespread since Donald Trump imposed tariffs on China in 2018.
Among the largest trading partners the US administration placed in the risk group are Canada, the EU, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan. Another group includes, among others, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam.
The European Commission denied that being mentioned in the report amounts to systematic assistance in illegal tariff evasion. In Brussels they said the risk of transshipment can exist within legitimate trade flows and pledged to continue cooperating with the US to combat customs fraud.
To detect such schemes, US Customs is developing an AI-based system called Detective Border. It is intended to analyze goods’ routes, declared origins and product composition and detect anomalies that may indicate attempts to avoid tariffs.
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