Rerouted US Imports Avoiding Trump Tariffs Top $300 Billion

About $300 billion worth of goods subject to Trump administration tariffs are avoiding the levies annually and reaching the US from Southeast Asia and Mexico, exposing enforcement vulnerabilities just as a review of the North American trade deal is set to begin.

US imports from China plummeted last year as President Donald Trump ramped up tariffs. But shipment-level records analyzed by AI-driven supply chain platform Altana show that as new duties were imposed and adjusted, businesses often routed goods through Asian countries with lower tariff rates, and onto Mexico, where treatment under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement offered another opportunity for savings.