transship
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The defendants engaged in a "deliberate and deceptive effort to transship controlled Nvidia GPUs to China by falsifying paperwork, creating fake contracts, and misleading US authorities," Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
The Persian Gulf remains a major waterway for trade, ranging from cargo ships that transship onto the rest of the world and energy shipments from the oil-rich Gulf Arab states.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
Send North Korean goods to China and transship them to South Korea.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2018
While Washington planned to police U.S. shippers to see that they did not transship to Cuba via neutral nations, it had no plans to pressure neutral governments to prohibit such transshipments.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Or they could depend on the chance of meeting some vessel homeward bound, to which they could transship before reaching Honolulu.
From Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator by J. W. Duffield
The spokesperson added that "any unilateral actions or agreements concerning transshipped goods must not target or harm the interests of third parties."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Spain is part of the European Union common market, so Spanish products could be transshipped through other EU countries and easily reach U.S. shores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Under the July agreement, goods deemed to be "transshipped" face an additional 40 percent duty.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
"We are seeing the benefit of these cargoes being transshipped into Europe," said Mark Whitworth, chief executive of Peel Ports, which operates Liverpool port.
From Reuters ● Nov. 4, 2021
Only Tool had easy access to work, acting as muscle on valuable goods as they transshipped to the Mississippi and the rail yards.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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The process is known as transshipping, which refers to the practice of transferring cargo through another country while en route to a final destination.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The tariffs in the order apply to chips imported to the U.S. that aren’t used domestically for artificial intelligence purposes but are then exported to another country, a practice called transshipping.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
The Commerce Department last month said it would investigate China Zhongwang Holdings Ltd. for trying to avoid U.S. import tariffs by transshipping aluminum through third countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2016
"We're not using any diplomatic energies of consequence to try to put pressure on the producer and transshipping countries," he complains.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Besides the headquarters in London there was an office in Brussels, and, as Rotterdam was the port of entry for all Belgian supplies, a transshipping office for commission goods was opened in that city.
From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Francis Andrew March