Chinese exporters evade new U.S. tariffs with fake product origin certificates from agriculture to steel trans shipping through Vietnam

According to a Bloomberg news report, Vietnam said on Sunday that it found dozens of fake product-origin certificates and illegal transfers by companies evading U.S. tariffs on everything from agriculture to textiles and steel. It was the first time an Asian government has publicly said this was happening since the trade war...
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UK territories British Virgin Islands, Bermuda and Cayman are top three worst enablers of corporate tax avoidance causing financial damage

Forty percent of todayā€™s cross-border direct investments reported by the IMF ā€“ $18 trillion in value ā€“ are being booked in just 10 countries that offer corporate tax rates of 3 percent or less. An independent international research organization, The Corporate Tax Haven Index, has published a reportĀ https://www.corporatetaxhavenindex.org/introduction/cthi-2019-results,...
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Chinese companies shift production to Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Serbia and Mexico to evade new import Tariffs

A growing number of Chinese companies are finding ways to evade President Donald Trumpā€™s tariffs: remove the ā€œMade in Chinaā€ label by shifting manufacturing from China to countries such as Vietnam, Serbia, and Mexico. Chinese factories are moving abroad to skirt higher customs taxes on their exports to the United States and...
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Cybersecurity company Fortinet settles DOJ case over sale of Chinese network security devices to U.S. military disguised as American made

Security vendor Fortinet has agreed to pay the equivalent of $545,000 to settle allegations it illegally sold the U.S. military Chinese technology disguised as American-made equipment, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. The Sunnyvale, California-based cybersecurity company agreed to pay the government $400,000and provide the U.S. Marine Corps with...
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