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Misreporting of invoice values is occurring \u201cat massive scale\u201d across Asian supply chains, researchers have said, with as much as a quarter of China\u2019s trade showing signs of potentially fraudulent misinvoicing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The findings were outlined in a paper published last week by Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a US-based think tank that analyses illicit financial flows, which studied the information reported by companies on each side of international transactions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It found that in 2022, the difference between what companies reported totalled a record US$1.7tn across developing Asia, up from US$1.5tn the year before and around double the figure a decade earlier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It said the findings suggest a \u201chuge hidden leakage\u201d of funds, which could indicate a combination of trade-based money laundering, import tax evasion and capital flight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe scale indicates that illicit financial leakages through trade are a first-order economic challenge for Asia,\u201d GFI said. \u201cThe opportunity cost is enormous: funds on the order of trillions that could have been used for development have instead been smuggled out, laundered or lost to governments.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Over the past decade, China\u2019s invoice value gap was estimated to stand at US$7tn, by far the largest contributor to misinvoicing in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis staggering number reflects China\u2019s status as the world\u2019s largest trading nation and indicates that misinvoicing is occurring at massive scale across its supply chains,\u201d the paper said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The think tank found the disparity is similar in China\u2019s trade with both developing and advanced economies. It said efforts by underground banking networks to evade currency controls through fake export or import invoices is a primary driver.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Misreporting of invoice values is occurring \u201cat massive scale\u201d across Asian supply chains, researchers have said, with as much as a quarter of China\u2019s trade showing signs of potentially fraudulent misinvoicing.\u00a0 The findings were outlined in a paper published last week by Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a US-based think tank that analyses illicit financial flows, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-rubriki"],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Trade-5-705x445.jpg",705,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Trade-5-463x348.jpg",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Trade-5-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"full":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Trade-5.jpg",705,470,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5822,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions\/5822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}