핵심요약

• 미국은 중국산 상품의 낮은 관세 유입을 막기 위해 '대규모 환적 사기(The Great Transshipment Scam)'라는 새로운 무역전선을 개시했습니다.
• 이 계획은 캐나다, EU, 인도, 일본 등 주요 무역 파트너를 포함하는 40개국을 첫 번째 단계로 지목합니다.
• 브라질, 인도네시아, 베트남 등은 중국 연계 공급망을 미국으로 이동시키는 데 필요한 물류 역량을 보유한 두 번째 단계 국가들로 분류됩니다.
• 캄보디아, 라오스, 파나마 등은 중국 연계 우회 경로에 매력적인 기회를 제공하는 세 번째 단계 국가들로 지목됩니다.

도입

본 기사는 트럼프 행정부가 주도하는 새로운 무역전선이 단순한 관세 분쟁을 넘어 전 세계적인 물류 및 공급망 조작에 대한 의혹을 포함하고 있음을 시사합니다. 이는 미국이 중국과의 경제적 갈등을 다각화하여 글로벌 공급망의 재편을 강제하려는 지정학적 전략으로 해석될 수 있습니다. 투자자들은 이러한 무역 조치들이 글로벌 생산 비용과 물류 흐름에 미칠 파급 효과를 면밀히 분석해야 합니다.

본문 1: 지정학적 리스크의 구조화

트럼프 행정부가 제시한 '대규모 환적 사기' 보고서는 특정 국가들의 참여를 통해 미국에 불리한 무역 환경을 조성하려는 시도를 포착하고 있습니다. 보고서는 캐나다, 유럽연합, 인도, 일본 등 주요 무역 파트너 40개국을 첫 번째 단계로 지목하며, 이는 미국과 주요 경제 블록 간의 관계가 무역 분쟁의 핵심 축이 되고 있음을 보여줍니다. 이는 단순한 상품 관세 문제를 넘어, 글로벌 경제 시스템 내에서 각국이 어떤 방식으로 자국 이익을 극대화하려 하는지에 대한 지정학적 분석을 요구합니다. 이러한 접근은 미국이 동맹국들과의 경제적 연대를 강화하고, 공급망의 안정성을 확보하는 데 있어 외교적 노력을 병행해야 함을 시사합니다.

본문 2: 공급망의 재편과 물류 역량의 분산

두 번째 단계로 분류된 브라질, 인도네시아, 말레이시아, 태국, 터키, 베트남 등은 중국 연계 공급망을 미국으로 이동시키는 데 필요한 산업 규모, 항만 용량, 공급업체 인프라, 물류 역량을 보유하고 있다는 점이 중요합니다. 이들 국가는 단순한 중간 경유지가 아니라, 글로벌 제조 및 물류 흐름에서 핵심적인 역할을 수행하고 있습니다. 이들 국가의 물류 역량 증가는 미국 중심의 기존 공급망에 대한 대안적 경로를 제공하며, 이는 향후 무역 분쟁 시 공급망의 분산과 재편이 가속화될 것임을 의미합니다. 따라서 이들 국가의 경제 성장은 미국의 무역 정책에 대한 대응책으로 작용할 가능성이 높습니다.

본문 3: 잠재적 위험과 장기 전망

세 번째 단계에 속하는 캄보디아, 라오스, 파나마와 같은 국가들은 중국 연계 우회 경로에 대한 '기회주의적 목표'로 언급됩니다. 이는 이러한 국가들이 미국의 압력에 따라 지정학적 이점을 확보하거나, 특정 무역 흐름을 통제하는 데 활용될 수 있음을 의미합니다. 장기적으로 볼 때, 이러한 다층적인 환적 시스템은 국제 무역의 투명성을 저해하고 예측 불가능성을 높이는 위험을 내포합니다. 미국과 주요 동맹국들은 이러한 불투명한 흐름을 관리하고, 국제 규범을 통해 공정한 무역 환경을 확립하기 위한 협력을 강화해야 할 것입니다. 이러한 글로벌 운영의 복잡성은 향후 국제 경제 질서의 안정성에 중대한 도전이 될 수 있습니다.

결론

이번 '대규모 환적 사기' 주장은 미국이 기존의 일방적인 관세 정책을 넘어, 전 세계적인 물류 및 공급망 흐름에 대한 통제권을 확보하려는 포괄적인 전략을 구사하고 있음을 보여줍니다. 투자자들은 단순히 관세 수치에 집중하기보다, 이처럼 복잡하게 얽힌 지정학적, 물류적 요인들이 장기적인 경제 성장에 미치는 영향을 종합적으로 고려해야 합니다. 향후 글로벌 무역 환경은 이러한 다층적 환적 경로와 각국의 지정학적 이해관계가 어떻게 상호작용하느냐에 따라 그 불확실성이 결정될 것입니다. 따라서 각국의 경제적 역량과 지정학적 위치를 분석하는 것이 중요합니다.

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New reactionary Trump measures to intensify trade war - World Socialist Web Site

The Trump administration is seeking to open a new front in its global trade war by accusing a wide range of countries of participating in schemes to allow Chinese goods into the US at a lower rate of tariff than they would otherwise be charged.

The new initiative is set out in a document issued by the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy earlier this month, entitled “The Great Transshipment Scam.” In a crude attempt to link up with interest in the Christopher Nolan movie Odyssey the document features a Trojan-style wooden horse on the front cover.

The department is headed by the rabid anti-China hawk Peter Navarro.

Commenting in the report he said: “For years, the great transshipment scam has let communist China launder its exports to more than 40 countries, rob our Treasury of billions of dollars and steal the pay cheques of billions of American workers.”

The basis of the report is that virtually the entire world is somehow involved in a giant conspiracy against the US.

The 40 countries pointed to by Navarro include the major trading partners of the US such as Canada, the European Union, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan.

But there is a second tier, according to the document, which combine integration into China-linked supply chains with significant illegal transshipment volumes. These include Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. These countries “possess sufficient industrial scale, port capacity, supplier infrastructure, manufacturing depth of logistics capacity to move significant volume of China-linked goods into US-bound trade flows.”

And there are more. A third tier, which contains the largest number of countries—Cambodia, Laos, Panama, Costa Rica are named among many others—which have capacities which made them “attractive opportunistic targets for China-linked rerouting.”

Reading the report, it is hard to think of a country which is not part of a supposed giant China-organised global operation against the US.

At first glance it might appear that the report is the expression of some kind of madness. But there is an underlying logic and economic reality.

The driving force of the US railing against a giant Chinese conspiracy is the vast change in the structure of the global economy over the past 40 years. This is the development of a highly integrated global production system with complex transportation, communication, and financial interconnections which has undermined previous US economic supremacy.

Navarro is just one of the more extreme expressions of the thinking in key sections of the US ruling class that its economic decline must be countered by all means available, including tariffs, financial sanctions and war, above all against China, which is being actively prepared.

The document is based on the big lie which sits at very centre of US tariff policy—that tariffs are an impost on the exporter, rather than a tax paid by the importer in the US, which is often then passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices.

That fiction has been exposed by official US facts and figures. When he imposed so-called “reciprocal tariffs” on virtually every country in the world in April 2025, Trump claimed they would be paid for by foreign countries and corporations which would provide hundreds of billions of dollars for the US Treasury, possibly even making income tax unnecessary.

As recently as his 2026 State of the Union address, he declared: “As time goes by, I believe that tariffs, paid for by foreign countries will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern-day system of income tax, taking a great financial burden off the people I love.”

Shortly after that, the Supreme Court ruled that the tariffs were illegal under the legislation through which they were imposed. But while the case went through the US courts, it was ruled they could be collected until a final determination was made.

The result of the decision has meant that US firms, which actually paid the taxes, not foreign countries or corporations, are legally entitled to a refund. And large amounts of money have already been paid, above all to major US companies.

Apple has received $2.2 billion, Nike $986 billion, FedEx around $800 million, Amazon $640 million and General Motors $500 million, with more to come.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal , where these figures were published, US Customs and Border Protections has received “just over 252,000 refund applications as of July 31 for tariffs declared illegal by the Supreme Court” and had accepted for processing claims amounting to $128.7 billion.

The Trump regime, however, has not abandoned its tariff war but has put in place a patchwork network to continue it. But this has exacerbated what it designates the transshipment scam.

According to the report: “Transshipment is driven by exporters taking advantage of differences in US tariff treatments across countries.” In other words where transshipment does take place it has been facilitated by the nature of the Trump’s application of tariffs.

They are higher for some countries, above all China, and lower for others and have been imposed under different pieces of legislation, sometimes applying to all goods from a given country and at times applying to specific products whatever their country of origin.

Tariffs do have an effect on exporters to the US but only inasmuch as they raise the price for their products, not because the exporters pay the tariff as Trump and his acolytes continually insist.

And the report itself acknowledges what it sees as the problem of transshipment has been created by the policies of the administration itself, noting that the net effect of the administration’s policies on illegal transshipment “remains unresolved” and that “tariff differentials increase the incentive to illegally transship.”

It is doubtful that a more chaotic trade and tariff policy has ever been devised. But its contradictions—creating an illegality where none existed before—do not spring from the fevered brains of Trump and members of his administration but from the fact their policies are in the deepest historical sense reactionary.

That is, they are advanced on the basis of a nationalist economic agenda, trying to secure the maintenance of American economic hegemony, under conditions where the foundations on which the nation-state system and US hegemony rested have been swept aside by the development of globalised production.

A commodity can no longer be stamped as made in China, made in Germany, made in the US or any other country but is the product of global labour—the integration of high-tech developments, manufacture of components, the assembly of final products into a unified system of production.

These objective developments, rooted in the development of the productive forces themselves, make clear not only the possibility of a planned world socialist economy but its necessity for the resolution of the contradictions of the capitalist system because the response of the Trump regime is to double down on its irrational and reactionary agenda.

The final section of the Navarro report is entitled “The AI Detective Border: A Global Warning.”

Significantly, it links the work of the Customs and Border Protection department to the events of 9/11—the pretext used for the “war on terror”—when its predecessor set up a system to track cargo, travellers and identity “national security threats.”

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