Analyst: US Customs Outage Might Be a 'Strategic Smoke Screen'

BlockBeats News, April 12th: Institutional analysts stated that the recent U.S. Customs outage may be far more than a simple software failure. The so-called "failure" explanation may be a strategic smokescreen, with the goal not being to fix a faulty system but to buy time during a period of high-risk global trade and capital flow adjustment.

With the shockwave caused by Trump's tariff measures reverberating through the global supply chain, the sudden "failure" resulting in a pause in tariff data processing conveniently allows key stakeholders—such as clearinghouses, freight forwarders, the U.S. Treasury, and Customs—to pause and reset pricing and arrangements before any new rates can be enforced. This may also be a form of information disruption akin to a brief wartime fog of war strategy.

By freezing tariff waiver tracking and reducing transparency on who is granted waivers and who isn't, this provides the U.S. executive branch and Treasury some relatively quiet time (hours or days) to assess market reactions, intervene if necessary, all without having their actions exposed in headlines. This can be seen as a proactive firewall against a liquidity crisis or geopolitical panic, rather than a systemic failure. (Jinse)