Chinese suppliers are offering U.S. Amazon sellers a tariff solution--but it's not legal [View all]

Source: Fortune

Exclusive: Chinese suppliers are offering U.S. Amazon sellers a tariff solution—but it’s not legal

Jason Del Rey
Sat, April 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM EDT 3 min read

President Trump's China tariffs are not just roiling the operations of Amazon sellers and other U.S. retailers big and small. They're also upending the businesses of Chinese manufacturers and distributors supplying goods to the U.S. from the other side of the world.

Now, some of these suppliers are trying to keep their businesses humming by offering a simple—but illegal—solution to U.S. Amazon sellers: lying about the value of the Amazon merchandise you are importing to the U.S. in an effort to lower the duties you'll have to pay under the new slate of tariffs.

Yes, that sounds a lot like customs fraud.

In emails and WeChat messages viewed by Fortune, around a half dozen Chinese suppliers proposed such illegal workarounds to executives from a mid-sized household goods brand with a large presence on Amazon.

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