Simply making the goods pass through a third country does not change the origin of the goods, and it's the origin which determines the tariff. So, as the artic

Simply making the goods pass through a third country does not change the origin of the goods, and it's the origin which determines the tariff. So, as the article mentioned, the goods has to be significantly transformed in the third country in order for the goods to have its origin changed. Otherwise you're committing fraud and customs can punish you if they figure it out. Thus doing this the legal way would indeed involve more than the ship making a simple detour.