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Videos, podcasts, and audio presentations on trade enforcement
American Alliance for Manufacturers Podcast
The American Alliance for Manufacturers podcast on trade fraud from the manufacturer's side: what evasion looks like on the ground, why current enforcement does not catch it, and what reform would. The argument in one sitting.
Trump Has Imposed a Lot of Tariffs. But Here's Why Collecting Them Can Be Hard
NPR on why collecting a tariff is harder than imposing one: the agencies screening imports are understaffed for the volume, and officials describe verifying only a small fraction of entries. The audio companion to the point our Case Tracker makes in numbers.
Amazon Pricing Impact Analysis
Digital Trojan Horse video on how cross-border e-commerce pricing interacts with tariffs and enforcement, and how foreign sellers use marketplace channels to undercut domestic producers. Context for the de minimis debate.
Trade Enforcement and Manufacturing Impact
Recording of the March 5, 2025 trade crimes press conference in Washington, where manufacturers called for criminal enforcement against tariff-evading importers. The event behind the Reuters and Nikkei Asia coverage in Media.
China, an Alabama Business and a 20-Year Battle
The Journal on Milton Magnus of M&B Metal Products and a twenty-year fight against duty evasion on wire hangers, the companion to the Wall Street Journal's print profile. What the enforcement gap costs one plant, told by the people in it.
The Trade Fraud Detective
Planet Money follows David Rashid of Plews & Edelmann as he traces how a Chinese competitor's parts kept arriving around the 2018 tariffs, with production apparently shifting to Thailand. The clearest audio explanation of why a tariff on paper and a tariff at the border are different things.
Aaron Rubin on Trade Enforcement Challenges
Aaron Rubin on what weak trade enforcement looks like from inside the supply chain: the disadvantage for domestic producers when foreign sellers exploit loopholes, and why stronger enforcement is the fix. Firsthand, not policy abstraction.
The Trojan Horse at America's Gates
Digital Trojan Horse presentation on how the de minimis exemption let platforms ship millions of small parcels past tariffs and safety inspection, and what that did to domestic manufacturers. The origin of the Digital Trojan Horse framing.