You can talk about how that would be tax evasion and it would be illegal but in practical terms that is exactly what they are doing. They just have hired a bun

You can talk about how that would be tax evasion and it would be illegal but in practical terms that is exactly what they are doing. They just have hired a bunch of lawyers to tell them how to do it so that it is legal. By the way, when you talk about selling product to international subsidiaries you are actually talking about putting their IP ownership in international subsidiaries and then having the American subsidiary pay licensing fees so that no profit is made in the US.