Canada is one of the “biggest enablers” of China bypassing U.S. tariffs via transshipping, according to a new White House report.
The report, entitled “The Great Transshipment Scam,” says that Chinese companies have increased the practice of exporting via third countries where they relabel and repackage goods before exporting them onward to the United States, listing a different country of origin.
Washington says the practice is “smuggling disguised as trade—fraud cloaked in paperwork,” and names Canada as one of the top countries enabling the practice.
“For years the great transshipment scam has led communist China to launder its exports to more than 40 countries, rob our treasury of tens of billions of dollars, and steal the paychecks of American workers,” Peter Navarro, an assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump and senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, said on Aug. 13….