Future Global Trade Regime & Investment Seminar (Handouts)

Information

  • Time and Date: 9:30-17:40, Tuesday, July 12, 2016
  • Venue: JETRO Exhibition Hall (12-32, Akasaka 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
  • Hosts: Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) / Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) / World Economic Forum (WEF) / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)

Investment in an Era of Mega-Regionals

Welcoming Remarks

MAEDA Shigeki (Executive Vice President, JETRO)

Sean DOHERTY (Head of International Trade and Investment, World Economic Forum)

Ricardo MELÉNDEZ-ORTIZ (Chief Executive, ICTSD)

Session 1: Harmonization of Investment Rules

Chair:

Jonathan FRIED (Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the WTO)

"The TPP Investment Model and the New Investment Landscape: Implications for Japan"

YOKOTA Mitsuhiro (Director for FTA/EPA Negotiations, METI)

"Alternative Models, Doing Without ISDS"

Peter DRAPER (Managing Director, Tutwa Consulting)

"Proposed Reforms of the Investor-State Arbitration"

HAMAMOTO Shotaro (Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University)

"Does Business Really Care About What Model to Follow?"

HARA Ichiro (Director, International Affairs Bureau, Keidanren)

"Towards Investment Harmonization in the Asia Pacific"

Mark FELDMAN (Professor of Law, Peking University)

Session 2: Investment Practice and Policy Issues for the XXI Century

Chair:

NAKATOMI Michitaka (Special Advisor to JETRO / Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

"Facilitating Different Forms of Investment"

James LOCKETT (Vice-President, Head of Trade Facilitation and Market Access, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.)

"Investment Promotion: A Japanese perspective"

INOMOTO Yuuki (Senior Advisor, Marubeni Economic Research Institute)

"The Current State of Japan's Inward FDI"

MAEDA Shigeki (Executive Vice President, JETRO)

"Investment and Trade Policy Coherence"

Ricardo MELÉNDEZ-ORTIZ (Chief Executive, ICTSD)

"Investor-State Arbitration in International Tax Dispute Resolution - A cut above dedicated tax dispute resolution?"

Julien CHAISSE (Professor of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Toward Future Global Trade Regimes-TPP and Beyond
Based on an upcoming report from the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Trade and FDI

<World Economic Forum White Paper - Global Agenda Council on Trade & FDI>
Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Reshape the Global Trade and Investment System?

Welcoming Remarks

ISHIGE Hiroyuki (Chairman, JETRO)

Jonathan FRIED (Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the WTO)

Session 1: Global Value Chains and Development

Moderator:

NAKATOMI Michitaka (Special Advisor to JETRO / Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Panelists:

Jonathan FRIED (Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the WTO)

Ricardo MELÉNDEZ-ORTIZ (Chief Executive, ICTSD)

James LOCKETT (Vice-President, Head of Trade Facilitation and Market Access, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.)

SHIMADA Genichiro (General Manager of International Relations Group, Panasonic Corporation)

SHIINO Kohei (Director, International Economy Division, Overseas Research Department, JETRO)

Session 2: Economics and Geography

Moderator:

Peter DRAPER (Managing Director, Tutwa Consulting)

Panelists:

Beatriz LEYCEGUI GARDOQUI (Partner, SAI Law & Economics)

URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)

KAWASAKI Kenichi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Senior Fellow, GRIPS)

OSHIMA Shotaro (Chairman, Institute for International Economics Studies)

Session 3: Global Trade System

Moderator:

Ricardo MELÉNDEZ-ORTIZ (Chief Executive, ICTSD)

Panelists:

Beatriz LEYCEGUI GARDOQUI (Partner, SAI Law & Economics)

WATANABE Tetsuya (DG for Multilateral Trade System, METI)

NAKATOMI Michitaka (Special Advisor to JETRO / Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Law, Sophia University)

Session 4: Conclusion: Tasks Ahead

Moderator:

Jonathan FRIED (Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the WTO)

Panelists:

Peter DRAPER (Managing Director, Tutwa Consulting)

WATANABE Tetsuya (DG for Multilateral Trade System, METI)

SHIMADA Genichiro (General Manager of International Relations Group, Panasonic Corporation)

URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)

Closing Remarks

NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Chairman, RIETI)