transship
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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The defendants engaged in a "deliberate and deceptive effort to transship controlled Nvidia GPUs to China by falsifying paperwork, creating fake contracts, and misleading US authorities," Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
The Persian Gulf remains a major waterway for trade, ranging from cargo ships that transship onto the rest of the world and energy shipments from the oil-rich Gulf Arab states.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
Send North Korean goods to China and transship them to South Korea.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2018
Businessmen find ways, moreover, to transship; U.S. goods have reached Cuba by way of Canada and Mexico.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we transship a large number of Lani to a strange world, we should know their deepest motivations.
From The Lani People by Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin)
Spain is part of the European Union common market, so Spanish products could be transshipped through other EU countries and easily reach U.S. shores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Under the July agreement, goods deemed to be "transshipped" face an additional 40 percent duty.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
"We are seeing the benefit of these cargoes being transshipped into Europe," said Mark Whitworth, chief executive of Peel Ports, which operates Liverpool port.
From Reuters ● Nov. 4, 2021
At first, the detection of transshipped honey relied on a simple test for an unapproved antibiotic, chloramphenicol, discovered in Chinese honey.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2015
Only Tool had easy access to work, acting as muscle on valuable goods as they transshipped to the Mississippi and the rail yards.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
The tariffs in the order apply to chips imported to the U.S. that aren’t used domestically for artificial intelligence purposes but are then exported to another country, a practice called transshipping.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
The Commerce Department last month said it would investigate China Zhongwang Holdings Ltd. for trying to avoid U.S. import tariffs by transshipping aluminum through third countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2016
The cost of exhuming and transshipping all the shattered, canvas-wrapped remains might run to $200 million.
From Time Magazine Archive
Army got port facilities for transshipping arms to Germany.
From Time Magazine Archive
All through the day the transshipping went on.
From The Vultures by Merriman, Henry Seton
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