{"text":[[{"start":9.4,"text":"The White House has accused more than 40 countries, including Canada, Mexico and Japan, of helping Beijing illegally avoid US tariffs by rerouting trade through nations subject to lower American import duties than China."}],[{"start":23.8,"text":"The nations and the EU were enabling the evasion of tariffs for $60bn in trade, the White House said in a report titled “The Great Transshipment Scam”. It also cited other US government and private sector reports which estimated the range of transshipment volumes from $40bn to $303bn."}],[{"start":44,"text":"Peter Navarro, head of the White House office of trade and manufacturing policy that issued the report, said China had used “extremely sophisticated” ways to engage in transshipment since Donald Trump first imposed tariffs on the country in 2018."}],[{"start":59.85,"text":"The practice has continued as the levies that the US president put on countries last year have created differentials in rates between countries that incentivise rerouting."}],[{"start":69,"text":"“For years, the great transshipment scam has let communist China launder its exports to more than 40 countries, rob our Treasury of tens of billions of dollars and steal the pay cheques of American workers,” Navarro said."}],[{"start":82.6,"text":"The report comes six weeks before President Xi Jinping is expected to make a reciprocal visit to Washington after welcoming Trump in Beijing in May. Trade tensions between the countries remain high despite the one-year truce the two leaders reached in Busan, South Korea, last October."}],[{"start":99.75,"text":"Treasury secretary Scott Bessent recently said he and US trade representative Jamieson Greer had raised concerns in a call with their main counterpart, vice-premier He Lifeng, about China upholding its commitment not to slow the export of rare earths to the US."}],[{"start":114.95,"text":"China is frustrated at new US national security measures, including the Federal Communications Commission banning the import of Chinese robots."}],[{"start":124.5,"text":"Navarro said the Customs and Border Protection agency was starting to use an AI-powered system called “Detective Border” to better determine the composition of exports to ensure correct labelling for tariff purposes. He said the effort would bring in tens of billions of dollars in tariff revenue to the US Treasury and would create “thousands more jobs for Americans”."}],[{"start":145.85,"text":"The USTR has included provisions to reduce transshipment in many of the trade deals it has negotiated with countries since Trump unleashed his worldwide “liberation day” tariffs last year."}],[{"start":156.95,"text":"RecommendedThe US-China decoupling fantasy, with Jessica Chen WeissBut the trade agency is still working on defining the “rules of origin” necessary to help evaluate where a product is manufactured to determine the appropriate tariff level."}],[{"start":172.85,"text":"“President Trump’s trade agenda includes deals and tariff agreements, and the benefits of those deals should go to the countries agreed to them,” Greer said. “Transshipment is a form of freeriding off President Trump’s deals and is perpetuated by bad-faith exporters who are often the very reason we have tariffs in the first place.”"}],[{"start":192.04999999999998,"text":"The White House report said other countries that had been hit with higher US tariffs were copying the Chinese transshipment model. “As we impose higher tariffs on other countries, India, Vietnam, on down the line, they’re going to try this transshipment too,” Navarro said."}],[{"start":216.5,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1786705195_7898.mp3"}