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Originally Posted by Nancy
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This one I actually kind of understand. Mainly the compliance part is to prevent China from dumping products into Canada and Mexico and passing them into the US to avoid tariffs.
During the first Trump term and later Biden, China resorted to this circumvention.
My guess is this is to avoid the situation where foreign oil and fertilizer does the same thing.
To be compliant the manufacturer needs to register the material/good with clear country of origin. There is apparently a large volume of goods that are not registered, many intentionally to circumvent tariffs.