Three tugboats work to rotate the Axel Maersk container ship as it heads into port in Miami in October 2021. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

By David J. Lynch

A Trump administration campaign to stop Chinese manufacturers from evading high U.S. tariffs risks clogging global trade with red tape, snarling the supply chains that electronics companies and automakers rely on to produce goods at the lowest cost, according to logistics experts and economists.

Administration officials say some Chinese companies have skirted the tariffs that President Donald Trump began imposing in 2018 by shipping their goods to American customers via countries such as Vietnam that face lower U.S. trade barriers. Those flows have grown this year as Trump hiked tariffs on Chinese goods to an unprecedented 145 percent in A

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