China carrying out customs fraud, trade expert says: ‘No doubt’

China may be out of ways to evade U.S. trade laws as President Donald Trump’s tariffs and border crackdowns come into effect. Daniel Pickard, an international trade expert and attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, believes Trump’s return to the Oval Office could bring an end to shady Chinese trade practices.

“What we have seen repeatedly with a lot of the Chinese products is that they choose not to pass along that duty, but they actually absorb that cost and keep their price the same in the United States in attempts to continue to buy market share,” Pickard told FOX Business. “I think what we’re going to see is that the Chinese are going to continue to attempt to absorb those duties and export their way out of economic doldrums.”

Pickard says that while there is a lack of consensus about the rate at which China’s economy is slowing, there is an agreement among experts like himself that it is “considerably cooling,” and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sees exports as a way out.

President Donald Trump, left, attends a bilateral meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping during the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 29, 2019. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo / Reuters)

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However, the CCP’s gravy train could come to a grinding halt, thanks to Trump’s policies and calls for “increased enforcement,” Pickard says.

On Feb. 1, Trump signed an executive order implementing an additional 10% tariff on Chinese imports, something he spoke about throughout his 2024 campaign.

“Chinese officials have failed to take the actions necessary to stem the flow of precursor chemicals to known criminal cartels and shut down money laundering by transnational criminal organizations,” the White House wrote, citing the flow of fentanyl and other “contraband drugs” into the U.S. as a reason for the heightened tariffs.

The White House went on to slam previous administrations that “failed to fully leverage America’s economic position as a tool to secure our borders.” Trump sees tariffs as not only a way of boosting U.S. manufacturers and the economy, but also to curb the flow of illegal drugs and to protect U.S. intellectual property.

“In response to China’s intellectual property theft, forced technology transfer, and other unreasonable behavior, President Trump acted with conviction to impose tariffs on imports from China, using that leverage to reach a historic bilateral economic agreement,” the White House added.

President Donald Trump discussed how he handled China while in office during his interview on “Mornings with Maria.” (Wang Gang/VCG via Getty Images/ Fox Business / Fox News)

Pickard told FOX Business that instances of Chinese customs fraud and trade crimes are not “anecdotal or isolated.” He asserted that “everybody who is…