ECIPE Lunch Seminar: Global Supply Chains, Asia, and Europe. Trade Policy Implications of China's and Europe's Integration into Regional and Global Supply Chain Networks

In the past decades, China has become a major hub of international trade and inward foreign direct investment (FDI). Its economy is now deeply integrated into today’s ever-shifting international supply chains in manufacturing, and has considerably altered today’s global production networks. Since the 1990s, Central and Eastern European economies have also seen a shift of FDI and trade from the older European Union member states, often with similar patterns of comparative advantage as China. Are the shifting trade and investment patterns in Europe and China mutually exclusive, unrelated or complementary? Does the EU have a trade policy adapted to the realities of today’s fast-changing global supply chains? How do its policies compare with the United States’?

It is with great pleasure that I invite you to join us in a discussion on these issues with KC Fung, Professor of Economics at UC Santa Cruz and Visiting Professor at Hong Kong Uiniversity. Professor Fung is one of the leading international specialists in the economics of supply chains and related trade policies in Asia/Pacific. His recent academic research involves comparative analysis with Europe. He is a current advisor and academic collaborator at the US International Trade Commission (USITC). He served on the President's Council of Economic Advisors during the Bush and Clinton administrations, handling US trade policy.


A light lunch will be served
Limited space available.

RSVP by 10 October 2008 at info@ecipe.org