WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- Sen. Bernie Moreno issued the following press release:
Today, Senator Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) sent a letter (https://www.moreno.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-08-12-Moreno-Illegal-Transshipment-Letter.pdf) to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin calling for action against illegal transshipment schemes used predominantly by Chinese manufacturers to disguise their goods' origins and evade U.S. tariffs. The CCP's scheme costs American taxpayers billions of dollars in tariff revenue and threatens American manufacturing jobs, predominantly in the auto industry.
"Illegal transshipment is a deliberate scheme by foreign manufacturers, overwhelmingly based in the People's Republic of China, to falsify where their goods ...