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By rerouting goods, companies can avoid tariffs

Trans-shipping is a way to circumvent new tariffs on foreign goods.

Shipping containers from China and other nations are unloaded at the Port of Long Beach in California in February.
Shipping containers from China and other nations are unloaded at the Port of Long Beach in California in February.
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images

The trade war between the United States and China has had so much of an impact on companies that many of them have successfully found ways to avoid paying tariffs.

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