The White House recently announced that “the age of untraceable illegal transshipment is over.” In an August 13 report titled, “The Great Transshipment Scam,” the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy issued what it called a “warning to the world” – “stop evading and avoiding the Trump tariffs through illegal transshipment. Those who continue will be caught.”
Illegal transshipment, which is the practice of routing goods from higher-tariff countries through lower-tariff jurisdictions to evade US tariffs, reportedly costs America tens of billions of dollars annually. To counter illegal transshipment, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is developing an AI-enabled “detective border” that will analyze shipment data, routing histories, product classifications and other information to purportedly “reveal[] inconsistencies that no human could catch at scale.”
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This involves defrauding the state or using government systems to steal from individuals.
- Tax Identity Theft: A criminal uses your ID and income details to file a tax return in your name and claim a refund before you do.
- Grant/Benefit Fraud: Falsely claiming unemployment, disability, or social grants that the perpetrator is not entitled to.