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SCMP Series
Behind the tariffs
6 of 7
1
Behind the Tariffs 01: Washing machines and the roots of the trade war
Tariffs have impacted washing machines and customers who buy them.
2
Behind the Tariffs 02: How bicycles link China and the US
Roughly 95 per cent of the bicycles sold in the US come from China.
3
Behind the tariffs 03: Solar cells and the exodus of Chinese companies
Solar cells.
4
Behind the Tariffs 04: Trucks, trade and Hong Kong’s conundrum
A semitrailer truck.
5
Behind the Tariffs 05: Handbags, game controllers and the IP battle
A handbag.
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Behind the Tariffs 06: Salad spinners, tariff exemptions and supply chains
What does a salad spinner have in common with a breast pump or guitar tuner?
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Behind the Tariffs 07: Epilogue, analysis and what next
Behind the Tariffs podcast
What does a salad spinner have in common with a breast pump or guitar tuner?
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Behind the Tariffs: What a salad spinner reveals about tariff exemptions and China’s supply chains

  • How a kitchen tool can teach you about tax exemptions, innovation, patents and explain how China’s supply chains are unique in the world.
US-China trade war
Jarrod Watt
Finbarr Bermingham
Naomi Ng
Jarrod Wattin Hong Kong,Finbarr Berminghamin BrusselsandNaomi Ng
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What does it take to get an exclusion from US tariffs? More to the point, what do a breast pump, a soldering iron, a guitar tuner and a salad spinner have in common?

Each of these items has been granted an exclusion from tariffs by the Office of the US Trade Representative, and Naomi Ng heads off on a hunt for the Hong Kong engineer who owns the patent for the salad spinner.

Her search brings her to the office of Gigi Wong, and an education in what the salad spinner can tell us about intellectual property and innovation, how there’s one Cantonese word that explains the Chinese supply chain, and how tariffs will affect consumers in the United States.

Featuring:

Gigi Wong, chief operations officer, King’s Flair, Hong Kong

William Marshall, international trade and supply chain lawyer, Tiang & Partners, Hong Kong

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