{
  "id": 1927539,
  "title": "The White House’s absurd claim of a Chinese transshipment “scam”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/the-white-houses-absurd-claim-of-a-chinese-transshipment-scam",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-19T11:30:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hindustan Times - World News",
    "slug": "hindustan-times-world-news",
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/the-white-house-s-absurd-claim-of-a-chinese-transshipment-scam-101787131153079.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In a new White House paper titled \"The Great Transshipment Scam,\" former Chief Trade Ideologue Peter Navarro accuses dozens of countries, ranging from Japan to Jordan, of facilitating a Chinese scheme to evade American tariffs. The paper aims to detail the consequences of President Trump's first wave of tariffs on Chinese goods in 2018, which many free-traders warned would backfire by creating an incentive for evasion of duties. As a result, the average tariff-rate differential between China and the rest of the world widened significantly, leading to a sharp decline in American imports from China.",
  "summary": "High tariffs on Chinese goods have had predictable effects",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}