transship
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verb (used without object)
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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
Here, instead of lightering, overseas ships tie up at a new pier, unload into junks of sufficiently shallow draft to make the mud banks up to Whampoa, or transship for Tientsin and Dairen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The anchor had hardly touched the bottom before Leith started to transship the provisions that were required for the trip across the island.
From The White Waterfall by James Francis Dwyer
The spokesperson added that "any unilateral actions or agreements concerning transshipped goods must not target or harm the interests of third parties."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
Canada and Mexico were granted exemptions from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum first imposed by Trump, but those agreements contain provisions aimed at preventing “surges” of imports and products transshipped from other countries.
From Reuters ● Feb. 15, 2022
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
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The process is known as transshipping, which refers to the practice of transferring cargo through another country while en route to a final destination.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
Hard-boiled Salesman Rieber tried to compromise, argued that the Spanish, busy rebuilding their country, could not be transshipping any oil to Germany.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They went to the agent's office, and after transshipping their cargo set out one morning for Don Luis' finca.
From Wyndham's Pal by Harold Bindloss
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