Illegal transshipment under scrutiny as US targets China-linked trade routes

Chart showing shares over time: blue line for 40+ transshipment-risk countries, red line for China (2000–2024). Blue declines then rises; red rises until 2018, then declines. Vertical dashed lines mark WTO entry in 2001 and Trump tariffs in 2018.

Illegal transshipment has emerged as another front in the US–China trade confrontation, with US authorities increasing scrutiny of goods potentially routed through third countries to circumvent tariffs. This report maps the ports, free zones, bonded warehouses and logistics corridors identified as potential gateways for China-linked goods entering the US market, while drawing on government and private-sector estimates to assess the possible […]

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