FILE PHOTO: U.S. and Chinese flags are seen before Defense Secretary James Mattis welcomes Chinese Minister of National Defense Gen. Wei Fenghe to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 9, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The United States has fined several companies for exporting goods via a Chinese-owned special economic zone in Cambodia in a bid to dodge President Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports, a U.S. Embassy official told Reuters on Wednesday.
Earlier this month, Vietnam's customs department said it had also found scores of cases of exporters illegally relabelling Chinese goods as "Made in Vietnam" in order to avoid tariffs imposed as a result of the ongoing U.S.-China trade war.
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