US flags dozens of trade partners as risks for aiding tariff evasion
The report says China-linked exporters routed goods through lower-tariff economies to avoid U.S. duties, with officials planning AI screening and retroactive penalties.
- On Thursday, the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy released a report titled "The Great Transshipment Scam," accusing more than 40 countries of helping Chinese exporters evade U.S. tariffs through relabeling and false country-of-origin claims.
- Estimates suggest tariff-evading transshipments have deprived the U.S. of between $40 billion and $303 billion in customs revenue annually, as Chinese exporters route goods through third countries to bypass levies imposed by President Donald Trump.
- The report categorizes participating nations into three tiers: Tier 1 includes "diversified scale leaders" like India, Canada, and the European Union; Tier 2 covers those with "significant economic integration" with China; Tier 3 consists of "small, opportunistic Chinese targets."
- Implementing enforcement measures, the administration will deploy an AI-enabled "Detective Border" system allowing Customs and Border Protection to scan shipment data and retroactively claim tariffs on companies' imports over the previous year.
- White House trade advisor Peter Navarro warned that countries facilitating transshipment face deterrence as tariffs increase, stating preferential U.S. market access is not "a license to launder somebody else's exports." His warning targets India and Vietnam specifically.
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The EU appears at the highest level of transshipment risk developed by the White House alongside Canada, Japan, Mexico or India
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum rejected this Friday that Mexico would facilitate the triangulation of goods to the United States to evade tariffs, after the White House identified the country as one of more than 40 territories used for the transshipment of products, mainly from China.
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