Vietnam cracking down on Chinese goods falsely labelled and shipped to US to avoid tariffs

Vietnam said it will impose higher penalties on Chinese goods transferred to the country and illegally relabelled as being “made in Vietnam” for export to the US to avoid tariffs.The customs department has detected dozens of fraudulent certificates of product origin and illegal transfers of goods ranging from agriculture and textile to steel and aluminium, the Vietnamese government said on its website on Sunday.Vietnam’s exports to the US have surged this year at the same time that China’s…