Nintendo has reportedly started making two new Switch consoles outside of China in order to evade new tariffs on US imports.Ā The Wall Street JournalĀ reportsĀ that Nintendoās supply chain have confirmed the movement of production to Southeast Asia, and that the company aims to produce enough consoles to fulfill demand in the US....
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Category: Tariff Evasion
Clothing company CEO prosecuted for customs fraud by understating value of children’s apparel made in China
Joseph Bailey, CEO of a children's apparel company called Stargate apparel Inc and Rivstar Apparel Inc. has been charged with participating in a scheme to defraud I.S. Customs by understating the true value of children's apparel made in China and resulting in a loss to the United States of over $1 million...
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Chinese exporters evade new U.S. tariffs with fake product origin certificates from agriculture to steel trans shipping through Vietnam
According to a Bloomberg news report, Vietnam said on Sunday that it found dozens of fake product-origin certificates and illegal transfers by companies evading U.S. tariffs on everything from agriculture to textiles and steel. It was the first time an Asian government has publicly said this was happening since the trade war...
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How the wealthy and corporations use loopholes to hide profits, avoiding taxes
In his book, Moneyland, Oliver Bullough details how wealthy individuals and large companies take advantage of a long list of loopholes to hide profits and leverage their control over the world. With a combination of geography and demography, Bullough takes readers on a journey of the corrupt practices followed by some of the...
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British American Tobacco Accused of Costing Developing Countries $700 Million in Tax Funds Using Subsidiary
According to a report by the Guardian, British American Tobacco is being accused of attempting to evade over $700 million in taxes combined from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Guyana, Brazil, Trinidad, and Tobago using a UK-based subsidiary to maneuver their profits.
British American Tobacco (BAT), based in London, is the...
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UK territories British Virgin Islands, Bermuda and Cayman are top three worst enablers of corporate tax avoidance causing financial damage
Forty percent of todayās cross-border direct investments reported by the IMF ā $18 trillion in value ā are being booked in just 10 countries that offer corporate tax rates of 3 percent or less.
An independent international research organization, The Corporate Tax Haven Index, has published a reportĀ https://www.corporatetaxhavenindex.org/introduction/cthi-2019-results,...
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Chinese companies shift production to Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Serbia and Mexico to evade new import Tariffs
A growing number of Chinese companies are finding ways to evade President Donald Trumpās tariffs: remove the āMade in Chinaā label by shifting manufacturing from China to countries such as Vietnam, Serbia, and Mexico. Chinese factories are moving abroad to skirt higher customs taxes on their exports to the United States and...
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Trade War with China causes U.S. Companies to Import their Goods from Other Countries Including Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, and Mexico
According to a report released earlier this month, U.S. companies are increasingly shifting imports from China to countries like Vietnam, South Korea, Mexico, and Taiwan, in an effort to avoid the high tariffs imposed on Chinese purchases during the current trade war.
With the current trade war waged on...
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Deforestation and Overfishing: The Environmental Effects of Foreign Tax Havens
The destructed land left from the acts of deforestation is an eerie sight. A distant treeline, fallen logs, and disrupted vegetation seem both natural and unnatural, and perhaps rightly so. In a recent investigation performed by Victor Galaz and members of the Stockholm Resilience Center, many acts of Amazonian deforestation can be...
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Cybersecurity company Fortinet settles DOJ case over sale of Chinese network security devices to U.S. military disguised as American made
Security vendor Fortinet has agreed to pay the equivalent of $545,000 to settle allegations it illegally sold the U.S. military Chinese technology disguised as American-made equipment, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
The Sunnyvale, California-based cybersecurity company agreed to pay the government $400,000and provide the U.S. Marine Corps with...
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