White House Publishes Transshipment Report

Is Chinese transshipment fraud bleeding America dry or are U.S. businesses simply dodging Trump's damaging tariffs?

AUG 14·Updated AUG 17

White House Publishes Transshipment Report

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Above: The Port of Long Beach, California, on Jan. 14. Image credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

The Spin

Pro-Trump narrative

The Great Transshipment Scam is bleeding America dry, with Chinese goods slipping into U.S. markets under fake identities, costing billions in lost tariff revenue and killing manufacturing jobs across the country. The Trump administration's AI-powered Detective Border, however, will provide exactly the kind of enforcement muscle needed to put an end to this fraud for good.

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Anti-Trump narrative

The administration talks a good deal about stopping transshipments but wildly misses the target. Rather than conspiring foreign states, the ones behind this are American businesses tired of bearing the costs of Trump's tariffs. If the White House really wants to address this, it should scrap the damaging tariff regime altogether, not build an even bigger bureaucracy to enforce it.

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