ECCT Tax Committee Lunch

The Impact of US-China Economic Conflicts and Taiwan's Choices

Guest speaker
Dr Roy Lee, Deputy Executive Director, Taiwan WTO & RTA Centre, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER) / 中華經濟研究院WTO及RTA中心 李淳副執行長

Time: 12:00 – 14:00

Date: Friday, 22 March 2019

Address: 158 Dunhua North Road, Taipei 10548, Taiwan / 10548 台北市松山區敦化北路158號

Venue: Mandarin Oriental Hotel, B2, Oriental 2&3 / 台北東方文華酒店 B2, 東方廳二三

The US-China economic conflict started with a trade (tariff) tit-for-tat war, but has since extended to technology and other areas. It is increasingly evident that the conflict will be a dynamic and long-term game.

As a key supplier of the global supply network, Taiwan is economically intertwined with the G2 and unavoidably a major stakeholder in the conflicts. In light of this context, our guest speaker's presentation will cover the following topics:

• The development and prospects of the US-China economic conflicts.
• The uncertainties and impacts of trade and technology conflicts on the global economic system and on Taiwan.
• The outlook for the WTO, CPTPP and other regional integration process.
• The possible ways (and limitations) to mitigate the impacts.

About the speaker

Dr Roy Lee (Chun) is currently the Deputy Executive Director of the Taiwan WTO and RTA Center at the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER). Dr Lee is a member of both the Executive Yuan's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and the Mainland Affairs Council's Advisory Committee. Dr Lee specializes in trade liberalisation policy, WTO, services trade, non-tariff measures (TBT and SPS) and regional integration. He is a policy advisor on Taiwan's trade negotiations with mainland China, New Zealand and Singapore and a capital-based expert on Taiwan's delegation for WTO services trade and TBT meetings and on its general liberalisation policy. He is (with Taiwan’s nomination) on the indicative list of Dispute Settlement arbitrators for the Taiwan-Singapore and Taiwan-New Zealand ECAs. In other capacities, Dr Lee is a frequent column writer on liberalisation policy for major newspapers in Taiwan. Before joining CIER in 2006, Dr Lee worked as a regulatory expert project consultant for the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) and the ASEAN–Australia Development Cooperation Program (AADCP). Dr Lee received his PhD in Public Policy from the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.

NT$1,400 for members and NT$2,000 for members' guest(s)

*To cancel without penalty, written cancellations must be received 24 hours prior to the event.

Contact: Emily Kuo / Tel: 2740-0236 ext. 219 / emily.kuo@ecct.com.tw  / www.ecct.com.tw