Circumvention
Also called: anti-circumvention · evasion · dolanma
Changing the pattern of trade to avoid a trade-remedy duty without real economic justification, for example by assembling goods in a third country or slightly modifying them. Authorities can extend the duty to the third country or modified product after an anti-circumvention investigation; the US also pursues duty evasion through EAPA investigations.
In practice
Buying from a new country of supply that has just started exporting a product under duty elsewhere invites scrutiny, so origin evidence must be solid.
EU
Türkiye
USA
UKRelated terms
- Anti-dumping duty
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- Countervailing duty
- An additional duty that offsets subsidies granted by a foreign government to producers or exporters, when subsidised imports injure domestic…
- Last substantial transformation
- The core test of non-preferential origin. In the EU (UCC Article 60), goods involving more than one country originate where they underwent their last…
- Transshipment
- Transferring goods from one means of transport to another during a journey, often at a hub port. In trade policy the word also describes illegally…