Washington DC, Aug. 13 -- A new report by the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy on Thursday accused more than 40 countries of helping Chinese exporters evade US tariffs by routing goods through third-party territories, relabelling them, or falsely claiming a non-Chinese country of origin, a practice it called the "Great Transhipment Scam."

The report categorises the 40-plus nations into three tiers. India is placed in Tier 1 ("Diversified Scale Leaders") alongside major economies like Canada, the European Union, Israel, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan, described as large industrial bases where transhipment risks are embedded within legitimate trade.

Tier 2 ("Significant Economic Integration with China") include...