Special note should be taken of the use of the term "transit" in the US report. A cargo in transit is like a passenger making a brief stopover. There are times when fully loaded containers remain aboard their ships while those ships are in port, and also when containers are briefly placed in bonded ware-houses on shore awaiting transfer to another vessel. In neither such instance do such containers ever actually enter Taiwan.
只是按照美方這份報告的用詞「轉口」來看，貨物「轉口」等於旅客「過境」，有時是為了船期關係，貨櫃不卸貨而留在原船上等待；有時則是為了轉換另一艘船而暫存港口的保稅倉庫，兩種情形都不進入台灣海關。