China is also sending Aluminum through Mexico.
Seems like something analogous to money laundering.
2016, eh? That would be Obama-era tariffs, right?
Wow. If you listened to the MSM echo-chamber you’d think Donald Trump was the only president who wants to charge tariffs on Chinese steel...
You cannot trust old or new enemies, they remain enemies.
It’s customs evasion. Many a GI in Korea has faced the music for selling duty free goods on the ROK economy.
...and aluminum via Mexico, etc., etc., etc.
Winning!
I heard even a year ago, that this is what is happening with some fish foods we eat. China and Vietnam are growing talapia and such in dung, and shipping thru Thailand or other area countries to avoid being caught.
If someone ships through a third country to avoid a tariff, that third country should of course be hit with the very same tariff.
Considering China’s history... in all the southern nations along the south China sea.....when some were populated up to and over 50% chinese.....China has always seen them as conduits for shipping their products. It’s “normal” from ‘their perspective’.
Any country ‘colluding’ with China to dump their steel to the US through their countries need to be slapped with tariffs too.
Not just through Vietnam but Canada and Mexico too.
Here’s the Canadian prime minister talking about Canada’s steel trade with the US;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3636689/posts
Canada is the #1 importer of steel to the US. They are a conduit not a manufacturer.
China is sending pregnant women by the thousands to USA to give birth on US soil and become automatically US citizen. We are the only industrialized country which gives citizenship to tourists who drop a baby on our soil.
When I saw Vietnam on a list of steel exporters to the US, I definitely did a double take. Does Vietnam actually have a steel industry that produces enough to export?
This is why tariffs need to apply to all countries. The temptation to smuggle goods through nations that are exempt is Hugh. And Series.