October 2nd, 2019
Official relations between the United States and Hong Kong are governed by the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 (“Policy Act”), which recognizes Hong Kong as an entity distinct from mainland China for the purposes of US law.
September 18th, 2019
Market access issues related to standards persist while non-science-based standards and unclear distinctions between mandatory and voluntary standards add challenges to compliance. While access to standards setting has improved, many intangible barriers remain. Companies that position themselves as industry leaders and work through associations to build industry consensus often enjoy greater success in influencing standards.
September 18th, 2019
US-China tensions are negatively impacting US company competitiveness and eroding market share. Some companies selling products or services to state-owned enterprises are sensing government procurement discrimination and project opportunity exclusion. Many companies are reinforcing efforts to maintain relationships with their customers and standardizing how they respond to inquiries about supply.
September 18th, 2019
SAMR has launched a series of enforcement campaigns in 2019 with a particular focus on unfair competition, intellectual property, online platforms, advertising, and food safety. Though the campaigns have primarily targeted domestic companies, vague regulatory guidance and enforcement pose potential risk for foreign companies.
September 13th, 2019
President Trump announced Wednesday evening that the 5 percent tariff increase to 30 percent on $250 billion worth of Chinese imports would be postponed by two weeks to October 15. The President said the delay was a “good will” gesture after a request from China’s Vice Premier Liu He, and was taken in consideration of the 70th anniversary celebration of the People’s Republic of China on October 1.
US goods exports to China slumped last year, with the nation taking a particularly hard punch to its breadbasket. Districts dependent on agricultural exports saw sales to China shrivel as a result of the ongoing and deepening trade conflict between the world’s two largest economies.
Every year, the US-China Business Council undertakes a comprehensive, econometric analysis of US goods and export data to China, broken down by states and voting districts.
September 4th, 2019
When Hong Kong was returned to China by the United Kingdom in 1997, it was supposed to maintain its independent social, legal, and economic systems until at least 2047. This served as the basis for the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act passed in 1992, which upholds that the United States continue to treat Hong Kong separately from the mainland for trade, export controls, and other purposes, unless the president determines through an executive order that Hong Kong is no longer sufficiently autonomous to justify this treatment.
September 4th, 2019
China’s push for civil-military integration (CMI) has intensified US concerns that cooperation with China on dual-use technologies will aid China’s military modernization efforts to the detriment of US national security. CMI has risen to a new level of importance under President Xi Jinping, who elevated it to a national strategy in March 2015 and established a high-level Party policymaking body to centralize leadership of CMI in January 2017.
