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What transshipment actually is. Why a White House report named Japan

On 13 August 2026 the White House published a 25-page report on illegal transshipment. Headlines led with $75 billion, 450,000 jobs, and Japan. The primary text puts Japan in Tier 1 for the scale of legitimate trade, not because a scheme was pinned to a Japanese city. This column reads the estimates and the enforcement that follows.