On 28 Sept, FMG held an online internal briefing on UNCTAD’s recent report “Magic DataBase of Industrial Subsidies”. This session was moderated by Gabrielle Marceau, FMG member and former legal adviser at the WTO.
Julia NIELSON, Deputy Director for Trade and Agriculture, OECD and Jehan SAUVAGE, Policy Analyst in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate of the OECD introduced the report. Then Prof. CUI Fan, Professor in International Trade, the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) China, and Dr. LI Yuankun, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences shared their comments as discussants.
Background readings for this session include
The OECD report: https://www.oecd.org/en/data/dashboards/magic-database-industrial-subsidies.html
English translation of Prof. CUI’s article A Critique of the OECD MAGIC Database of Industrial Subsidies and Related Reports
Dr. LI’s article “China Subsidy Estimates Depend on an Interest-Rate Yardstick” (https://voxchina.org/show-3-466.html)
Over 20 FMG members attended this session online.
Annex: List of participants
Xiankun Lu
Gabrielle Marceau
Willy Alfaro
Ignacio Garcia Bercero
Elizabeth Chelliah
Simon Evenett
Robert Koopman
Cecilia Malmstrom
Mario Matus
Jonathan Fried
Mia Mikic
Hamid Mamdouh
Janet Macharia
Rosine Plank
Alan Wolff
Rolf Traeger
Sherry Stephenson
Siqi Li
Colette van der Ven
Brad McDonald
Victor do Prado
John Weekes
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