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The New Singapore Law On Antidumping And Countervailing Duties, Locknie Hsu
The New Singapore Law On Antidumping And Countervailing Duties, Locknie Hsu
Locknie HSU
The Countervailing and Anti-dumping Duties Act 1996 ("the Act") came into effect on 1 November 1996.1 This legislation was enacted to bring Singapore's law in relation to countervailing duties, subsidies and antidumping into conformity with requirements of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements It also updates the law by repealing the outmoded Customs (Subsidies and Anti-dumping) Act. The new rules and procedures in the Act are meant to "give added assurance and certainty to the local and foreign parties concerned whenever an action is instituted."In addition to the Act, detailed regulations have also been passed. The Act follows the basic …
The Role And Future Of Sovereign Wealth Funds: A Trade And Investment Perspective, Locknie Hsu
The Role And Future Of Sovereign Wealth Funds: A Trade And Investment Perspective, Locknie Hsu
Locknie HSU
Sovereign wealth funds ("SWFs") have been greeted with bothenthusiasm and suspicion. In one respect, they have been called "white knights," where they step in to inject financing to troubledentities.' In others, they have been called "Trojan horses" and"chameleons."
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Investors In Search Of An Identity In The 21st Century, Locknie Hsu
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Investors In Search Of An Identity In The 21st Century, Locknie Hsu
Locknie HSU
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), as they have come to be known, are a hybrid type of foreign investor. They invest beyond their own borders with an aim to maximize returns as a foreign investor is expected to. At the same time, they are closely associated with governments, by ownership, source of funding, and/or investment objectives. Even as within this group, individual SWFs take various forms and may have divergent investment priorities and risk approaches. There is not even a universal definition of SWFs. As a result, they are often not viewed as typical foreign investors. The association of a SWF …
Legal Barriers To Supply Chain Connectivity In Asean, Locknie Hsu
Legal Barriers To Supply Chain Connectivity In Asean, Locknie Hsu
Locknie HSU
This is an Interim Report published pursuant to a Tier 1 research grant from SMU, examining legal barriers to doing business in ASEAN countries. The Interim Report presents research material and findings on such barriers and a number of actionable preliminary recommendations for policy-makers to consider and utilise. The main areas of barriers examined are corporate, trade, investment, land use, dispute settlement and legal information barriers encountered in the region. The Final Report is expected to be published in March 2018.
Inward Fdi In Singapore And Its Policy Context, Locknie Hsu
Inward Fdi In Singapore And Its Policy Context, Locknie Hsu
Locknie HSU
No abstract provided.
Improving Connectivity Between Asean's Legal Systems To Address Commercial Issues, Locknie Hsu, Pearlie M. C. Koh, Man Yip
Improving Connectivity Between Asean's Legal Systems To Address Commercial Issues, Locknie Hsu, Pearlie M. C. Koh, Man Yip
Locknie HSU
This interim report on legal barriers to doing business in ASEAN coincides with the50th Anniversary of ASEAN’s founding and the first year of the ASEAN EconomicCommunity (AEC). The team is privileged to be supported by, among others, theCanada-ASEAN Business Council (CABC), given that it is also the 40th anniversary ofdialogue relations between Canada and ASEAN. Despite occasional misgivings about the “ASEAN Way”, ASEAN economic integrationhas come a very long way. The number of member States has grown over the 50years since ASEAN’s founding, and the joint efforts among these States drivingeconomic growth and integration in the region have been notable.1 …
Inward Fdi In Singapore And Its Policy Context, Locknie Hsu
Inward Fdi In Singapore And Its Policy Context, Locknie Hsu
Locknie HSU
Inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) has long been an important feature of the Singapore economy, and Singapore remains an attractive host to FDI. Apart from a brief decline in 2002, FDI inflows have generally been strong in the decade 2000-2010. They reached a peak in 2007 at US$ 37 billion, just before the global financial and economic crisis of 2008-2009. In 2008, inflows declined sharply to US$ 8.6 billion, before rapidly rebounding to reach US$ 38 billion in 2010. Singapore has moved from an economy primarily involved in manufacturing consumer goods in labor-intensive industries in the 1960s, to one producing …
A Harmonized System Of International Commercial Arbitration Within The Aec And Beyond?, Locknie Hsu
A Harmonized System Of International Commercial Arbitration Within The Aec And Beyond?, Locknie Hsu
Locknie HSU
No abstract provided.