Back in 2018, we put historic tariffs on China to protect American workers. Almost immediately, China started looking for ways around them. One of those ways? Transshipment. The crudest form of transshipment is pretty simple: a high-tariff country like China ships its goods through a third country, swaps the label, and sends them into America at a lower tariff rate.

Peter Navarro discusses historical tariffs imposed on China in 2018 to protect American workers. He highlights China's attempts to circumvent these tariffs through methods like transshipment, where goods are rerouted through third countries to avoid higher import rates.