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HEADLINES: Global Decoupling: The Map / China's Health Silk Road / Optimizing China Profits Via DTA / Enhanced Benefits for Shenzhen Start Ups / Complimentary Guide: Doing Business in Singapore / All Eyes on Vietnam / UK & Indonesia Develop Closer Trade and Economic Ties / Establishing a Business Entity in Bangladesh / Diversifying Your Asia Supply Chain: What Does Bangladesh Offer? / Investing In India’s Textiles Industry: Key Points

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GLOBAL TRADE
Global De-Coupling: The Map
De-Coupling would usher in a new Cold War split, with warnings from President's Xi and Putin against this concept.
 
China's Health Silk Road - Analysis, Covid, Financing & Global Implications
After gaining control of COVID on a domestic basis, from a period of early March until late October last year, a period of only 7 months, China provided medical assistance to over 150 countries. This is extraordinary.
 
CHINA
Optimizing China Profits via Double Tax Agreements: Case Study
Overseas investors who derive dividends from China are normally subject to 10% corporate income tax in China. The invested company that distributes the dividends or profits is obliged to withhold the relevant tax and file with the tax bureaus in charge. However, there are mechanisms to further reduce this.
 
Shenzhen Implements New Foreign Investor Friendly Commerical Registration Rules
With plans for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to build a world-class innovation hub and city cluster, Shenzhen is expected to play a core role, and expected to create a more preferential business environment. Shenzhen’s updated rules on commercial registration are worth a closer review.
 
ASEAN
Complimentary Guide: Doing Business in Singapore 2021
With its favorable taxation policies and strategic position within Southeast Asia, Singapore offers foreign investors competitive access to the Asian market. Businesses operating in Singapore enjoy over 80 double taxation avoidance agreements, significant tax deductions, and free trade agreements with many other nations.
 
All Eyes on Vietnam: How & Why to Enter the Market
Vietnam has created a concrete foundation to bounce back stronger in 2021, with the amendment of a variety of important laws that help improve its business climate, in addition to free trade networks with the EU, the UK, and RCEP countries.
 
The UK & Indonesia Develop Closer Trade and Economic Ties
On Monday, 26 April 2021, the UK and Indonesia concluded the first round of exploratory trade talks and committed to further strengthening their trade and investment links, which rose to a record level of £3 billion of bilateral trade in 2019, through a new joint trade dialogue.
 
INDIA & BANGLADESH
Investing In India’s Textiles Industry: Key Points
India’s textiles sector is driven by the country’s abundant availability of raw materials and labor, with the market size standing at US$140.4 billion in 2020, and expected to grow to US$223 billion by 2021.
 
Establishing a Business Entity in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is becoming an increasingly attractive investment destination due to its cost competitive business environment and large labor market. Key sectors that have benefited from foreign direct investment include garment and textiles, agribusiness, energy, IT and outsourcing, and infrastructure.
 
Diversifying Your Asia Supply Chain: What Does Bangladesh Offer?
Bangladesh has a competitive investment climate, relatively large and young labor market, and is ambitious to grow its agribusiness, garment and textiles, energy, IT, and infrastructure sectors.
 
 
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UPCOMING EVENTS IN THIS MONTH
 
Adopting a China+1 Strategy in ASEAN: Diversifying Supply Chain to Minimize Risks
Webinar | April 29, 2021 | 3:00 PM Vietnam / 4:00 PM Singapore / 8:00 AM UK
 
Crash Course on Doing Business and Investing in China's Greater Bay Area in 2021: Part II
Webinar | May 4, 2021 | 5:00 PM EST / 2:00 PM PST
 
Vietnam: Sourcing, Outsourcing und Produktion
Webinar | May 5, 2021 | 10:00 AM German / 3:00 PM Vietnam / 4:00 PM Singapore
 
Reclutamento, audit dell’HR ed assunzioni temporane delle risorse umane in Cina
Webinar | May 11, 2021 | 11:00 AM Central European Time
 
How to Repatriate Profits from China: Practical Methods & Strategy Development
Webinar | May 13, 2021 | 3:30 PM China / 2:30 PM Vietnam / 9:30 AM CET
 
Digitalizing Your Accounting Process - A Way to Improve Internal Controls and Enhance Tax Compliance
Seminar | May 13, 2021 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Nanjing, China
 
Debt Funding Options in India – Types, Tax Implications, and Regulatory Regime
Webinar | May 18, 2021 | 2:30 PM India Time / 4:00 PM Vietnam Time / 5:00 PM China Time
 
 
 
 
 
 
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