Chinese firms use S'pore & Dubai as "camouflage" to switch shipping documents in order to avoid US tariff barriers

McClatchy, 25 Mar 2010
Hanhen Shipping, in the southern China city of Shenzhen, calls itself a leading third-party logistics provider. Boasting "innovative thinking and young team," its Web site includes a diagram explaining how it moves product as if it were coming from another country "in order to protect the interests of traders and save tariff expenses."
The company promises to "switch documents reasonably" and offers to use Singapore or Dubai as camouflage. Hanhen notes that it issues country-of-origin documents from Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Bangladesh "in order to avoid tariff barriers." Full Story