‘Wash’ products in third countries to prevent Donald Trump tariffs

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Chinese exporters increase their efforts to prevent the tariffs provided by the US President Donald Trump, because it is to hide their real origins through third countries.

Chinese social media platforms offer something with the flow of goods, with advertisements, which offers “originous place washing” Chinese He raised the excitement in neighboring countries, but really fulfilled the staging posts for trade trade for the United States.

The growing use of tactics emphasizes the fear of exporters, 4 percent of the fact that new tariffs In Chinese goods will deprive them of entering one of the most important markets.

“Tariff is very high,” said Sarah Ou, a seller of Baitai traffic light, an exporter located in the Chinese city of China. “(But) we can sell the goods to neighboring countries, then neighboring countries sell them to the United States and will decrease.”

US traders require a “based transformation”, including evaluation or production, such as “substantive conversion”, generally adding an important value in a country.

However, social media platforms such as XiaOhongshu, exporters’ proposal to help raise countries like Malaysia will be given in a certificate of new origin and then be sent to the United States.

“The United States has introduced tariffs on Chinese products? Transit to” be transmitted to Southeast Asian goods via Malaysia! ” said an advertisement in Xiaohongshu in Xiaohongshu this week with a score in Xiaohongshu.

“The United States put restrictions on the Chinese wooden floor and tables? ‘Wash the origin in Malaysia for the right customs clearance!” Added. A person who contacted the details provided in the advertisement refused to comment.

The South Korean customs agency reported that the majority of origin in the first quarter of this year last month and almost all of this year.

“We see a sharp increase in the last cases, where the US government is used as a bypass for the products of our country to prevent different tariffs and restrictions due to the change of trade policy.” “We found many cases of Chinese products falsified as Korea.”

Last month, the Ministry of Vietnamese Industry and Trade, local trade unions, exporters and manufacturers called on local trade units and producers to prevent the origin of raw materials and entrance goods.

Thailand’s foreign trade department also detected measures to compress the origin of products related to the United States to prevent the expiration of the tariff last month.

OU, as many Chinese manufacturers, as many Chinese manufacturers, the company is responsible for the goods for reducing legal risks for the exporter for the exporter.

“Customers need to find a port in Guangzhou or Shenzhen, and how long does it last, we have completed our mission … (hereinafter) This is none of our work.”

Sellers in two logistics companies will be able to send goods to Klang in Malaysia, they will transfer the places to local containers and changed their labels and packaging. Companies had ties with Malaysian factories, and they had factories that could help provide certificates of origin.

“The United States should know it,” he said. “It can’t be very mad, so we manage the amount (our orders we took).”

“They are not very serious,” said other vendors.

China’s foreign and trade ministries and the Malaysian government did not respond immediately to surveys for comments.

A consultant adviser recommending border trade companies, the origin wash, Trump’ın two main methods that work to prevent new accounts said. The other was cheaper with cheaper goods, so the exporters can falsify the lower total cost of exporters, he said.

The owner of the consumer goods manufacturer located in South China Dongguan, the owner of the two local industrial units “Gray Region” tariff tariffs, he said, he said.

“It’s mostly just sending it to the Chinese port and I take it from there.”

“These agencies said that such as small and medium-sized enterprises are always gray areas, the tariff could make better weather conditions,” he said. “I hope it is true. The United States is a big market – I don’t want to lose.”

The spread of efforts to prevent tariffs has caused concern among US business partners. In the first 10 independent vendors in Amazon, a CEO has observed the cases where the renting of the leasing is under the risk of confiscation by the US customs authorities.

The executor said they did not want to act as a “record importer” of Chinese suppliers, such as the “record importer” and retail costs, such as retail costs.

Execution said they were worried that a supplier could notice a false value. “You trust a Chinese supplier,” he said.