While subsidisation and its distorting impact on trade, investment and competitiveness has always been a controversial issue, in the past few years concerns over the potential of foreign subsidies to erode domestic markets and the potential of domestic players to compete at home and abroad have risen to alarming levels – and so have subsidy-related disputes. Countries like the EU, the US and China have exchanged recriminations over their respective subsidy regimes and, in the EU´s case, these rising concerns have led to the rolling out of an instrument aiming to tackle distortive foreign subsidies.

However, so far there has been a lack of comprehensive data on how these different subsidy regimes look like. In order to address this gap, Global Trade Alert (GTA) compiled data on 18,137 corporate subsidies awarded by China, the EU, and the USA since November 2008 in order to develop its 28th GTA Report, which focusses on the subsidy regimes of these three players.

The European Chamber is thus pleased to invite you to join our upcoming event, where GTA Report co-author Professor Simon Evenett will provide an overview of the study. Professor Evenett will be joined by Ms Iana Dreyer, founder of Borderlex, and Professor Henry Gao from the Singapore Management University, who will the European and Chinese perspectives on subsidisation.

• 2021-11-11 | 15:00 - 16:30
• Zoom

The European Chamber is honored to invite mentors from CIMI Charlotte Roule and Paris Hadjisotiriou and their mentees Wu Jing, Wang Lin and Neményi Viktoria to share their mentoring experience and how the CIMI can facilitate the female leadership development. This webinar will be moderated by Laurie O'Donnell, Managing Director at Cornerstone International Group.

• 2021-11-11 | 13:30 - 14:30
• ZOOM

The EU SME Centre and the European Chamber are thus pleased to invite you to join our next Policy Meeting, where Mr Bert Hofman, director of the East Asian Institute at NUS and Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School, and Mr Andrew Batson, China Research Director at Gavekal, will provide their perspectives on China’s push for Common Prosperity. The meeting will take place on Friday, 5th November 2021 from 9:00 to 10:30AM via Zoom.

• 2021-11-05 | 09:00 - 10:30
• Zoom

Extensive power cuts have and are continuing to cripple critical industrial outputs and create instability for the business landscape in China. With increased pressure from authorities to meet targets for energy reduction, the current power shortages experienced across the nation are at the forefront of China’s Carbon neutrality ambitions to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and ultimately achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Issues are exacerbated by insufficient new energies power supply and surging prices of coal/gas that increase costs for power producers that will likely to persist this coming winter. However, we need to ensure that there is a balance between Energy Security and China’s long term carbon neutrality targets through a more sustainable approach.

• 2021-11-03 - 2021-11-03 | 16:00 - 17:30
• European Chamber Office, Shanghai

Presentation Persuasion is an advanced workshop designed to help presenters make their presentations more targeted, strategic, and persuasive. Using time tested oratory techniques as well as cutting edge neuromarketing science, this workshop will show you how to optimize your results. Participants will be taught the most powerful marketing and advertising methods used by the worlds most effective influencers, Whether your selling, motivating, or persuading, you'll learn and practice the best methods of getting what you want!

• 2021-10-28 | 09:00 - 17:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office

In order to better guide foreign enterprises to operate in compliance with regulations in China and help foreign enterprises break through the difficulties of resolving foreign-related commercial disputes, European Union Chamber of Commerce in China and Shanghai Commercial Mediation Center will hold a working group meeting on Cross-Border Dispute Resolution of Foreign Enterprises on October 28th, 14:00-16:00

• 2021-10-28 | 14:00 - 16:00
• Shanghai Commercial Mediation Center 上海市经贸商事调解中心

Europe’s Transformation towards Sustainable Chemistry
With the EU Commission presidency of Ursula von der Leyen in 2019, the European Green Deal was announced to transform the EU economy into a climate-neutral and sustainable economy and to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals SDGs. One important part of the European Green Deal is the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) which is bringing in fundamentally new concepts like Safe and Sustainable by-Design and Essential Use as a legal requirement. Further on well-established concepts mainly under the REACH Regulation and CLP Regulation will be strengthened resulting in decisive restrictions of entire substance groups. This seminar will discuss the latest developments since the publication of the CSS in October 2020 with two experts from Merck.

• 2021-10-28 - 2021-10-28 | 15:00 - 16:30
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, 22nd Floor, Room 2204

The Finance & Taxation Working Group is pleased to invite you to the meeting “Corporate Restructuring: PRC Tax Considerations”, which is taking place on October, 22nd, 15:00-16:00, on Zoom and at the Shanghai office of the European Chamber.

• 2021-10-26 | 15:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office and Online Zoom

China is in the midst of one of the most serious power shortages in a decade, with 22 provinces employing varying degrees of load-shedding measures. The large-scale power crunch that ensued has raised the alarm to both government authorities and businesses. For a market that has largely maintained power supply security during two decades of robust growth, it is astonishing to observe the scale of this current power shortage.

• 2021-10-25 | 15:00 - 16:30
• Zoom/European Chamber Office Beijing, Room C405

The European Chamber is delighted to invite you to its next Financial Services Joint Working Group Meeting: An Update on China Cybersecurity and Data Protection and their Impacts on the Financial Services sector which is to take place on Wednesday 20th October 2021, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Register online or email Ludivine Destree at ldestree@europeanchamber.com.cn before Tuesday 19th October, noon. You will receive a confirmation email containing the link to join the meeting via Zoom after registration closes the day before.

• 2021-10-20 | 14:30 - 16:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office and Online (Zoom)