By ZHONG NAN and CHENG YU in Beijing, BELINDA ROBINSON in New York and MAY ZHOU in Houston |
China Daily |
China has rebuffed accusations of a so-called "transshipment scam" made by the United States, with experts and officials emphasizing that normal shifts in global supply chains when companies diversify production and sourcing networks should not be smeared as "tariff evasion".
Their remarks come after a report released earlier this week by the White House's Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy accused more than 40 economies and trading groups of facilitating "Chinese tariff evasion".
The report, titled "The Great Transshipment Scam", claimed that goods once shipped directly from China to the US were now increasingly routed through other jurisdictions, where minor processing — such as limited assembly, finishing, repackaging, relabeling or paperwork changes — could make them appear to have originated elsewhere.
