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China rejects US report alleging firms routed trade via Mexico to dodge tariffs
Chinese officials said the core driver of supply chain risk is US tariff levels, while disputed job and output estimates were framed as model based.
China’s Ministry of Commerce rejected a White House report that alleged Chinese exporters routed goods through Mexico and other countries to avoid US tariffs, calling the claims a distorted view of international trade and investment, according to SCMP Economy.
At a Beijing briefing, ministry spokesman He Yadong said the report treated normal trade behavior as fraud and characterized it as unilateral protectionism aimed at suppressing Chinese products, while he also accused Washington of blaming external factors for its own economic problems.
He pointed to the “high differentiated tariffs” imposed by the United States as the real cause threatening global supply chains, and China demanded an immediate end to what it called irresponsible accusations.
The report’s estimates of 450,000 American jobs and up to US$150 billion in lost output were described by SCMP Economy as model-based illustrations, with the text acknowledging that changes in US import sourcing after 2018 do not prove all displaced Chinese trade was illegally diverted.