Writing here, Peter Navarro warns us of a “Great Transshipment Scam” and its web of foreign staging grounds and back doors through which sly exporters sneak their goods into America under a false flag. He wants customs scrutiny, penalties, and tightly enforced rules of origin to catch these ne’er-do-wells. He describes an unenforced tariff as a “tollbooth with no collector.”
There’s a problem with his story. The culprits he’s after are, overwhelmingly, Americans.
Read Full Article »