This essential book analyzes the regulatory and operational challenges
that foreign direct investors face in the United States, as well as the ways in which
these challenges can be overcome.
Firms from emerging markets, particularly China, are increasingly investing in the US –
the world's most important and sophisticated national market. This path-breaking book
addresses why investors need to be familiar with the issues they are facing. The topics
explored include the national and international regulatory framework governing FDI in the
US which has changed considerably in light of recent laws and regulations; how to navigate
the various groups that influence policies in Washington D.C. (especially as far as China
is concerned); and dealing with the ‘liability of foreignness’ that every foreign
investor faces and needs to address successfully.
Written by leading experts in their respective fields, academics and others interested in
the various challenges associated with investing in the US – and particularly the
foreign direct investment relationship between China and the US – will find this book
invaluable. Executives of multinational enterprises wanting to learn more about the
challenges involved should also not be without this important book.
Edited by Karl P. Sauvant, Executive Director, Vale Columbia Center on
Sustainable International Investment (a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth
Institute) at Columbia University, US
Contents:
Foreword
Carla A. Hills
Preface
Karl P. Sauvant
1. Is the United States Ready for FDI from China? Overview
Karl P. Sauvant
2. Modes of Entry by Chinese Firms in the United States: Economic and Political
Issues
Steven Globerman and Daniel Shapiro
3. The US Regulatory and Institutional Framework for FDI
David N. Fagan
4. The Politics of Chinese Investment in the US
Timothy Frye and Pablo M. Pinto
5. Revisiting Liability of Foreignness: Socio-Political Costs Facing Chinese
Multinationals in the United States
Lorraine Eden and Stewart R. Miller
6. International Investment Law Protections for Chinese Investment into the US
Mark Kantor
7. Is the US Ready for FDI from China? Lessons from Japan’s Experience in the
1980s
Curtis J. Milhaupt
Appendix I: Exon–Florio Statute: Authority to Review Certain Mergers,
Acquisitions, and Takeovers
Appendix II: Regulations Pertaining to Mergers, Acquisitions, and Takeovers by
Foreign Persons; Final Rule
Appendix III: Executive Order Further Amending Executive Order 11858 Concerning
Foreign Investment in the United States
Index
288 pages, Hardcover
