Beijing is pushing back against U.S. accusations that several other economies, including several in Southeast Asia, are part of a “shadow transshipment network” that funnels Chinese-made goods to the U.S. while obscuring their country of origin.
On Thursday, the White House’s Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy released a report titled “The Great Transshipment Scam,” which claimed that rerouting Chinese-made goods through a network of 40 different jurisdictions cost the U.S. as much as $303 billion.
