Transshipment scam or efficient supply chain? How U.S. firms turn it into profit?
The “Great Transshipment Scam”, an August 2026 White House report, accuses India’s Pune–Gujarat–Chennai production belt of pumps and compressors that export to the U.S. as being largely just pit stops in the movement of Chinese goods to America where no meaningful value addition is made. The report says China-linked exporters use jurisdictions like India for “both limited production activity and logistics-side routing”. And the alleged scam lies in evading the high tariffs that the Trump administration levied on China in its first term by routing these pumps and…
