“Business Insider,” which published the article, is reliably anti-Trump.
I would like to see the source and the exact data for the author’s claim that Chinese switches exported to Canada “increased substantially,” but switch exports to the USA “fell.”
In any event, the quote that caught my eye...
“There is no real concrete evidence to support Donovan’s theory...”
Transshipments to Canada and Mexico to do an end-run around import restrictions was not uncommon. It’s been part of Trump’s beef with NAFTA.