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China exports lots of stuff to the USA and those containers go back empty. They can easily be filled up with stolen iPhones and catalytic converters for recycling, so that they aren’t all empty.

Power tools probably not though.




I thought the empties carried all of the stolen cars to their new homes.


That’s way too much trouble, and Chinese customs is really serious about their 100% tariff for DIY car imports. Stolen iPhones and cats are much easier to smuggle in, and have little value outside of Chinese recyclers.


You seem to think that a ship can't pull into a different port in a different country on the way back to China.




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