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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - It Was a Great Scam While It Lasted:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/opinion/us-tariffs-economy-trade-transshipment-scam.html
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The New York Times
It Was a Great Scam While It Lasted
By Peter Navarro
Mr. Navarro is an assistant to President Trump and senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.
Aug. 13, 2026
The recliner really is made in Vietnam. The plant, just north of Ho Chi Minh City, is legit - it's got thousands of workers making real furniture. The motor inside the recliner is another story.
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The motor arrives from China finished, branded and boxed, shipped by the container load from a factory in the same corporate family as the furniture maker. Workers unbox it and bolt it into the recliner. Within 90 days the recliner sails from Vung Tau and lands at Norfolk, Va., where the Chinese mechanism is declared as Vietnamese. If the paperwork holds, that "Made in Vietnam" claim erases 25 percentage points of American tariff that would otherwise be levied.
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It is not an isolated case. On Thursday, the White House is releasing a report documenting the great transshipment scam: a shadow network of more than 40 countries enabling sleight of hand to deceive American consumers and customs officials about where their exports really originate. In the process, these countries are robbing the United States of tens of billions of dollars a year and countless manufacturing jobs.
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Transshipment is driven by tariff arbitrage: When a product from one country faces a higher U.S. tariff than it would from another country, the difference becomes a profit opportunity, and even a business model in its own right.
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