TAG Managing Partner Amb. Kurt Tong shares insight on U.S. elections, WH restrictions on AI investments in China, and U.S.-China trade.
“What is crystal clear is that there are many in the Indian government and among Indian stakeholders that would like to see a much bigger trade relationship between the U.S. and India,” he said, adding that “the missing piece is the readiness on the U.S. side to show that same desire to really take it to
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“There is no better moment than a change of leadership at the White House, whether Democratic or Republican, to chart a new course in US-India geoeconomic strategy.”
Chinese firms view Mexico as a compelling investment destination in North America. Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows from China into Mexico represent Mexico’s fastest-growing source of inbound industrial capital. In 2022, China’s annual FDI into Mexico reached a record high and was almost four times the total in 2015. These most recent numbers also do not account for a wave of large investment deals signed in the past two to three years, some in the billions of dollars, that will be reflected in official data over the coming years.
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The White House and Congress are increasingly concerned about the growing number of Chinese goods that bypass import duties. In 2016, Congress raised the import value threshold under de minimis from USD 200 to USD 800, but by 2021, Congress reopened debate on the threshold given the explosion of China’s fast- fashion retailers and the growing fentanyl crisis in the United States.
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In the pantheon of obscure international trade terminology, the “generalised system of preferences,” or GSP, has a special place. GSP refers to an approach that has been adopted by nearly all developed countries for roughly the last half-century to offer incentives for economic reform in developing countries through lower tariffs.
Each trend poses risks and opportunities that will directly affect the operating environment for multinational corporations. Understanding the dynamics behind each issue and staying alert to key watchpoints will be crucial to navigate the shifting regional business environment.
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Outside voices: Measuring, skeptically, the Biden trade agenda
November 10, 2023 at 8:00 AM
“Count me skeptical,” writes Mark Linscott, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center, about potential for the administration’s “signature effort in Asia,” the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, to deliver on its promises “to fill the vacuum left by abandonment of what is now the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership.”
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In recent years, global trade relationships have shifted substantially, in many ways reversing a decades-long multilateral drive toward more open trade. I know how dizzying these shifts have been from my own experience as a US trade negotiator over the past three decades. It’s too early to tell whether these shifts are a temporary setback or, instead, a terminus for the multilateral trading system, but it’s not too soon to assess how US policies are faring amid these changes.
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Wendy Cutler is Vice President at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) and the managing director of the Washington, D.C. office. She joined ASPI after nearly three decades as a diplomat and negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), where she served as Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative. During her USTR career,
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