Cars for export are ready to be loaded onto a ship at a port in Yantai, in eastern China’s Shandong province on April 3, 2025. AFP via Getty Images
The Chinese regime has been exporting new cars as “used” to absorb the auto industry’s overcapacity amid low domestic demand and increased tariffs, raising renewed concerns of dumping.
A large number of “zero-mileage” new cars are marked as used and sold both domestically and abroad in recent years, according to Chinese and international media reports.
