Global China Conversations #31

Chinese Industrial Subsidies: Impacts on EU-China Trade?

29 Apr 2024
11:00
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12:00
Registration required

Topic

China makes extensive use of subsidies to promote the development of selected industries such as the green technology sectors of electric vehicles, wind turbines and rail vehicles. According to various studies, industrial subsidies in China are three to four times or up to nine times higher than in the major EU and OECD countries. Is the Chinese government deliberately strengthening its export offensive strategy with these massive subsidies? How could such extensive industrial subsidies from China affect EU-China trade in particular? Are European companies facing increasing market pressure as a result of such subsidies? How should the EU react to these challenges?

Program

The event consists of different impulse lectures followed by a discussion.  

The Global China Conversation #31 will be held in German.

Literature

The impulse lectures refer to the following publication: 

Bickenbach, F., Dohse, D., Langhammer, Rolf J., und Liu, W.-H. (2024), Foulspiel? Zu Höhe und Umfang der Industriesubventionen in China, Kiel Policy Brief Nr. 173, Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft.  

DiPippo, G., Mazzocco, I. und Kenedy, S. (2022). Red Ink: Estimating Chinese Industrial Policy Spending in Comparative Perspective, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC.  

OECD (2023). Government Support in Industrial Sectors. A Synthesis Report, OECD Trade Policy Papers, No. 270, OECD Publishing, Paris.  

Presentation Rolf J. Langhammer:
Chinesische Industriesubventionen: Auswirkungen auf EU-China Handel?

Speakers

Rolf Langhammer - Kiel Institute

Rolf J. Langhammer 

Prof. Dr. Rolf J. Langhammer was Vice-President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy from October 1997 until August 2012 and Professor at the Kiel Institute. He retired from the Vice-Presidency on August 31, 2012, but continues to work at the Institute. From April 2003 to September 2004, he served as Acting President. From July 1995 to November 2005, he headed the Research Department "Development Economics and Global Integration" at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Prof. Langhammer has served as a consultant to a number of international institutions (EU, World Bank, OECD, UNIDO, ADB), as well as to the German ministries of economic affairs and economic cooperation.  

Dr. Volker Treier

Volker Treier

Dr. Volker Treier has been Chief Executive of Foreign Trade since 2019 and a member of the executive board of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK). 

Moderation

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk is a business journalist specializing in East Asia. He heads the editorial team of China.Table, the daily professional briefing for experts in business, science, politics, and organizations. Among other things, he has worked as a Beijing correspondent for the Handelsblatt and the DuMont Group and later represented several media as a business correspondent at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin.  

Contact

Moritz Haase

moritz.haase@ifw-kiel.de