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Trade war: Want to avoid US tariffs? China's Settle Logistics knows a way

The network of Chinese brokers that bypass tariffs in the West by shipping goods through other countries is extensive and highly developed

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Containers at Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai. To avoid tariffs on exports from China, brokers arrange transshipments, which make a stop in another country on the way to their destinations to disguise the origin of the goods. Photo: Reuters

Keith Bradsher | NYT Shanghai
Want to avoid American tariffs? In China, a company called Settle Logistics says it knows a way.

Specifically, that way goes through Malaysia — a 4,600-mile diversion compared with sending a shipping container from China straight across the Pacific to the United States. But when those Chinese products arrive at an American port, they will look as if they had come from Malaysia, according to the company, and will be spared tariffs aimed at Chinese goods.

“For those unfair trade barriers targeting our industries from certain countries,” Settle Logistics says on its website, “we can adopt other approaches to bypass those trade

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