November 17, 2020 LawCustoms Stream: EO CN-Related Securities; China-U.S. Economic Relationship

A weekly live web event dedicated to issues related to international trade.


This stream started with announcements of CBLE Appeal Deadline; CBP Protest Webinar and Executive Order on Addressing the Threat form Securities Investments that Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies. Then, the discussion shifted to the history between U.S. and Peoples Republic of China that culminated to the Executive Order.


Links Used During the Stream:

CBP Exam Appeal Deadline - January 11, 2021

https://www.cbp.gov/trade/programs-administration/customs-brokers/how-appeal

CBP Protest Webinar - December 9, 2020

https://teregistration.cbp.gov/index.asp?w=215
https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=462e23f9f88e97e37102975aa2e8f35e&mc=true&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title19/19cfr174_main_02.tpl

Executive Order on Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments that Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies (Nov. 12, 2020)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-addressing-threat-securities-investments-finance-communist-chinese-military-companies/

DOD Sec. 1237 List Background Overview
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=b2b1a6a8-2268-454a-9bdc-e65398f8ba24

Lists Themselves

List 1:

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Aug/28/2002486659/-1/-1/1/LINK_2_1237_TRANCHE_1_QUALIFIYING_ENTITIES.PDF

List 2:

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Aug/28/2002486689/-1/-1/1/LINK_1_1237_TRANCHE-23_QUALIFYING_ENTITIES.PDF

Dept. of State U.S.-China Relations

https://history.state.gov/countries/issues/china-us-relations

XX Communist Party Congress:

https://histrf.ru/lenta-vremeni/event/view/xx-siezd-kpss-doklad-khrushchieva-o-kul-tie-lichnosti-stalina

1969 Conflict - Damansky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict

https://histrf.ru/lenta-vremeni/event/view/voiennyi-konflikt-sssr-i-kitaia-v-raionie-o-damanskii

https://ok.ru/video/1719504671045

US ping-pong team visited PRC

https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2017/09/ping-pong-diplomacy-people-coming-together-established-sino-america-detente/

Next year, PRC returned the favor and its team visited United States

https://www.ncuscr.org/program/table-tennis-delegation-1972

The same year, 1972, Nixon visits PRC and meets Mao Zedong

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/rapprochement-china

Henry Kissinger makes Nixon Visit Arrangements

https://china.usc.edu/getting-beijing-henry-kissingers-secret-1971-trip

December 1978: Third Plenum of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

http://www.china.org.cn/china/CPC_90_anniversary/2011-06/01/content_22694375.htm

Special Economic Zones

Zones Map
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21681376.2018.1430612

Zones Short Overview
https://www.britannica.com/topic/special-economic-zone

Legal Framework for Zones

https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/chn_e/WTACCCHN46_LEG_8.pdf

Jan. 1, 1979 United States recognized PRC, followed by the visit of Deng Xiaoping meeting with Carter

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1977-1980/china-policy

What followed is the increase in PRC-US trade disbalance

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html

China and Biden - NYT Outlook

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/world/americas/Biden-foreign-policy.html

Sustainability of negative balance of trade - sneak preview from Treasury’s Report on fiscal policy

https://fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/financial-report/unsustainable-fiscal-path.html

Positive Spin by Counsel on Foreign Relations

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/national-debt-dilemma

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