Peter Navarro announced that India is on the White House's radar over allegations of transshipment, the practice of rerouting Chinese goods through third countries to dodge U.S. tariffs. The claim came alongside a White House report titled 'The Great Transshipment Scam,' which names over 40 countries, with Mexico and South Asian nations singled out as major players.
The report specifically labels Gujarat, Chennai and Pune as 'ugly sister cities' to Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus, accusing them of serving as pass-through points for pumps and compressors originally made in China. Navarro pegged annual U.S. losses from transshipment at $19 billion to $26 billion, and claimed every billion dollars of diverted imports costs 6,000 American jobs.
Navarro described the tariff-dodging as 'mind-numbing' and framed it as a modern form of smuggling, dating the practice back to the 2018 tariffs he helped design. He did not offer independent verification for the job-loss or revenue figures beyond his own report.
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