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The Trump administration has launched a so-called Section 301 investigation into China's alleged misappropriation of intellectual property, and the President could impose tariffs or import restrictions to protect U.S. firms from what the administration deems unfair trade practices.

On October 10, USTR hold a public hearing on this investigation, and some groups said it has cost the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars in technology and millions of jobs lost to China. While others noted the recent creation on a pilot basis of three special intellectual property courts in Chinaas a sign of progress, and the country should be given credit for the steady progress it has made in building an IP enforcement system from scratch as it joined the world economy.

Please join us and enjoy a dialogue with Tim Stratford, current partner at the Beijing office of Covington & Burling LLP , and former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, and Yang Guohua, current Professor at Tsinghua University, and former DDG of Department of Treaty and Law at MOFCOM. They will share their insights on Section 301 investigation and its impacts on foreign businesses in China.

If you are interested in attending this event, please register and pay online before noon, Oct 23. For any questions, please feel free to contact Ms. Sijie Wang at 010-8519 0857 or sijie.wang@amchamchina.org.

* Please note that Pre Event Access (PEA) card is NOT eligible for this event.

Agenda

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Registration
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Presentation
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Presentation
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Q&A

Speakers

  • Tim Stratford (Partner at Covington & Burling LLP’s Beijing office)

    Tim Stratford

    Partner at Covington & Burling LLP’s Beijing office

    Tim Stratford is managing partner in Covington & Burling LLP’s Beijing office and a member of the International Trade, Corporate and Government Affairs Practice Groups. Mr. Stratford’s practice is focused on advising international clients doing business in China and assisting Chinese companies seeking to expand their businesses globally. As a former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, Mr. Stratford is the most senior former U.S. trade official working as a member of the U.S. business community in China. Except for the five years he spent in Washington, D.C. in government service (2005-2010), Mr. Stratford has lived and worked continuously in the greater China region since 1982.

    While at USTR, Mr. Stratford was responsible for developing and implementing U.S. trade policy toward mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Mongolia. He worked closely with other senior U.S. and Chinese officials from numerous government departments and agencies to address problems encountered by companies engaged in bilateral trade and investment and co-chaired a number of important bilateral working groups and dialogues established under the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade and the U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue.

    Prior to serving at USTR, Mr. Stratford was General Counsel for General Motors’ China operations, where he was a member of GM’s senior management team in China and oversaw the company’s legal and trade policy work. Mr. Stratford also served previously as Minister-Counselor for Commercial Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and as Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Brigham Young University, and is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese.

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  • Guohua Yang (Professor at Tsinghua University)

    Guohua Yang

    Professor at Tsinghua University

    Mr. YANG Guohua is a professor at China Tsinghua University Law School, teaching A Study on China WTO Cases (undergraduate), Legal Problems in Sino-US Economic Relations (graduate students), Chinese Economic and Legal Systems from the Perspective of China WTO Cases (foreign students) and A Study on Tsinghua University (general education course for freshmen).

    When he was working in the Chinese Ministry of Commerce from 1996-2014, he participated in the negotiations on China WTO accession and drafting the Accession Protocol and Working Party Report; he led a group of experts checking Chinese laws and regulations against the WTO rules and China commitments; he was the first Director and later Deputy Director General for WTO Legal Affairs within the Ministry responsible for WTO cases related to China. In numerous articles, speeches and over a dozen books, he tried to prove that the WTO established a good example for international rule of law and WTO membership contributed to the economic and social development in China, so he strongly advocated for the multilateral trading system represented by the WTO. He also has a rich background on trade policy making and international cooperation. For example, he was the head of Chinese delegations for intellectual property rights dialogues with the United States, the EU, Japan, Russia, Switzerland and Brazil, and for international conferences at Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), etc.

    He is Executive Vice Chairman, WTO Law Research Society of China Law Society (China WTO Law Society); Arbitrator, International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC, China) and South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission/Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA, China); Member, Expert Group for Commercial and Maritime Trials, Supreme Court, China; Member, Indicative List for dispute settlement panels, the WTO Secretariat; Associate Editor, Journal of World Trade; Distinguished Legal Scholar Award, Beijing Law Society (1999). He was also IP attaché at Chinese Embassy in the United States, Washington, DC (2006.1-2008.9) and WTO Appellate Body member candidate (2016).

    He graduated from Peking University Law School in 1996 (Ph.D) and Wuhan University Law School in 1994 (LLM). He was born in 1965.

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Tickets

AmCham Cardholder
Member Price RMB 150
Member Price (Pay at the door) RMB 200
Employee of Member Company
Standard Price RMB 350
Door Price RMB 350
Non-Members
Standard Price RMB 600
Door Price RMB 600

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