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How transshipment may undercut Trump's tariffs

  • Written by Patrick Conway, Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

President Donald Trump is vowing to crack down on deceptive transshipment. That is the practice of moving cargo from one country to another by way of a third nation to evade trade restrictions.

As an international economist, I have researched the impact of imported textiles and apparel on those industries in North Carolina over the last 20 years....

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