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US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration has accused dozens of countries of helping China to illegally dodge United States tariffs, depriving government coffers of tens of billions of dollars in annual revenues.<\/p>\n
In a report published on Thursday, the White House said more than 40 countries\u00a0have participated in a shadow logistics network facilitating the flow of Chinese goods\u00a0into the US under false labelling.<\/p>\n
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China\u2019s biggest enablers in the \u201cGreat Transshipment Scam\u201d include the European Union, Mexico, Canada, India, Japan and South Korea, the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy said in the report.<\/p>\n
Southeast Asian countries, including Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia, also play \u201can important role\u201d in the network, the trade policy office said.<\/p>\n
US manufacturing sectors hit hardest by the transshipments include electrical equipment, integrated circuits, aluminium products and motor components, according to the report.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery dollar lost to this Great Transshipment Scam is a dollar stolen from American workers, manufacturers, and taxpayers,\u201d the office headed by Trump appointee Peter Navarro said in the report.<\/p>\n
China\u2019s embassy in Washington, DC, did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside of regular office hours.<\/p>\n
The dozens of countries named in the report have yet to publicly respond to its claims.<\/p>\n
Warning that countries facilitating transshipments are being \u201cput on notice\u201d, the White House said border authorities have employed artificial intelligence to integrate shipment data and other information as part of strengthened enforcement efforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe message to the world is simple. The age of untraceable illegal transshipment is over,\u201d the trade office said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat once seemed like quiet paperwork manoeuvres \u2013 relabelling, repackaging, re-invoicing \u2013 has become a matter of economic sovereignty and national will.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump has shaken up global trade with a slew of protectionist trade policies since returning to the White House in January last year.<\/p>\n
In its latest trade salvo, the Trump administration announced levies of 10-12.5 percent on imports from dozens of countries accused of turning a blind eye to forced labour.<\/p>\n
A group of 25 Democratic-led US states, including New York, California and Colorado, has challenged the tariffs in court, calling the measures a pretext to reimpose Trump\u2019s sweeping \u201cLiberation Day\u201d duties, which the US Supreme Court struck down in February.<\/p>\n
Amitendu Palit, a trade expert and professor at the National University of Singapore, called the White House report the latest effort by the Trump administration to coerce countries into accepting greater market access for US goods.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe delegitimisation of liberation day tariffs have meant huge loss for the Trump administration: both in terms of the refunds that it has had to pay, as well as in credibility,\u201d Palit told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n
\u201cTherefore it is seeking out more and more \u2018innovative\u2019 forms of weaponising market access. This follows the earlier Section 301 tariffs imposed on various countries for not being able to limit use of forced labour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White House report claims tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue lost to transshipments. Published On 14…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1686,1376,46,43,1687,44,41,39,42,40,772,1690],"class_list":["post-857824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-business-and-economy","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-headlines","tag-international-trade","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}