China-Australia FTA after COVID-19: Tariff to Technology

This event focuses on legal issues regarding both the classical and the new model when exporting Australian products to China.

Classical trade liberalisation is driven by manufacturers and governments. This is because the existing global value chain is largely based on the comparative advantage of production, and WTO regulations mainly focus on manufacturers and states rather than consumers. However, cross-border retail e-commerce has spurred a new, consumer-led model of trade liberalization, which unlike the classical approach, tends to be tariff-free, retail-based and grass-roots. This event focuses on legal issues regarding both the classical and the new model when exporting Australian products to China.

Speakers:

Dr Brett Williams, Lawyer, academic and technical assistance consultant based in Sydney

Topic: China’s anti-dumping duties on imports of Barley from Australia

Associate Professor Jie (Jeanne) Huang, The University of Sydney Law School

Topic: Cross-border E-commerce Zones: China’s Consumer-led Trade Liberalization and its Implications on Australian Exporters

Professor Jiaxiang Hu, Professor of KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Topic: Some Fundamental Issues on the Implementation of MPIAAA from the Perspective of WTO Dispute Settlement

Chair: Professor Vivienne Bath, Professor of Chinese & International Business Law, The University of Sydney Law School

Speaker’s biographies:

Dr Brett G. Williams

Dr Brett G. Williams is a lawyer, academic and technical assistance consultant based in Sydney specializing in the regulation of international trade, especially the law of the World Trade Organization. He is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and of the High Court of Australia.

Associate Professor Jie (Jeanne) Huang

Associate Professor Jeanne Huang specialises in conflict of laws and digital trade/e-commerce regulations. She is widely recognised as an active and productive scholar in the interdisciplinary study between conflict of laws and data economy. In leading peer-reviewed journals, she has published on jurisdiction and applicable law in China, Australia, the US and the EU litigations on data protection, arbitration, and data protection/e-commerce regulations in free trade agreements. She has also written extensively about arbitration, litigation and judgment enforcement involving China and Chinese parties.

Professor Jiaxiang Hu

HU Jiaxiang, BA and MA of Hangzhou University, Mphil in Law of Zhejiang University, PhD of the University of Edinburgh, Professor of KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univerisity. In the past three decades, profeesor Hu has published more than ten books and one hundred article both in Chinese and English. He has been awarded with various honours by the Ministry of Education and Shanghai Municipality for his excellent teaching. Currently, he is leading some national research programmes. His research areas include public international law, international economic law and WTO law.

Professor Vivienne Bath

Professor Bath’s teaching and research interests are in international business and economic law, private international law and Chinese law. She has first class honours in Chinese and in law from the Australian National University, and an LLM from Harvard Law School. She has also studied in China and Germany. Professor Bath has extensive professional experience in Sydney, New York and Hong Kong, specialising in international commercial law, with a focus on foreign investment and commercial transactions in China and the Asian region.Professor Bath speaks Chinese (mandarin) and German.

This event will take place via Zoom.

CPD Points: 1

Presented by the China Studies Centre in partnership with the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney.