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Dr. Harley Seyedin Dear Members, self-isolation at home rather than the
previously required seven. People who
Winner of the 2017 Oslo Greetings, are close contacts of COVID close contacts
Business for Peace Award will undergo seven days of isolation at
(together with Elon Musk, The weather couldn’t have been more home rather than centralized quarantine.
Durren Shahnaz and Murad perfect for Round 1 of our international
AI-Katib) golf tournament on July 6 at Dongguan These Covid restriction requirements
Awarded by an Award Harbor Plaza Golf Club. Over 100 golfers, were announced a week before State
Committee of Nobel Laureates including several Consuls General from Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang
in Peace and Economics Consulates General in Guangzhou, Yi held talks with US Secretary of
Among few individuals on 232 attended the tournament. I don’t want to State Antony Blinken in Bali after the
years to be awarded the Thomas take too much away from our cover story conclusion of the G20 Foreign Ministers’
Jefferson initiated Peace on page 7, but it was a day of surprises Meeting. In a relationship as complex
through Commerce Medal by including Mauro Nardone becoming and consequential as the one between
the US Government our very first Hole in One winner. What a the United States and China, there is
great day and congratulations to all. I’m a lot to talk about. The two sides did
looking forward to our next two rounds have a comprehensive, in-depth and
in October and December. candid communication at length on
China-US relations and international
Talk about surprises, we still have a few and regional issues of mutual interest.
tickets available for our July 27 Whiskey, Both sides agreed that the dialogue
Caviar & Italian Bubbles, an even co- was substantive and constructive,
sponsored by Oggi Trattoria Pizzeria and has helped the two sides increase
and Oak and Barley. It will be a delicious mutual understanding, reduce
evening filled to the brim with delicacies misunderstanding and miscalculation,
such as an assortment of Italian canapes and accumulated conditions for future
and caviar savories, chocolates and high-level interactions. Wang Yi pointed
deserts, not to mention Italian sparkling out that the fundamental approach
wine and Five Regions of Scotch whiskey to steer China-US relations out of
flights. Don’t wait. July 22 is your difficulties is by earnestly implementing
deadline to buy your tickets. the common understandings reached by
the two Presidents.
We would like to send out a hardy
thanks to our friends at KPMG for co- The conversation between the
hosting our Insights on Post-Epidemic, two officials occurred as the Biden
Customs and Transfer Hot Topics. The administration began wrapping up a
seminar was a true eye-opener for many mandatory review of tariffs on Chinese
of our members. imports. Facing intense pressure to bring
down inflation any way it can, the Biden
We do have some good news on the administration is conducting its four-
domestic Covid front. Last month, China year review of the Section 301 tariffs
eased restrictions on international flights placed on furniture, footwear, sunscreen,
to China. Passengers can take direct appliances, bicycles and other consumer
flights or can transfer to China. Travelers goods, and officials have indicated the
can make multiple transfers and there White House will announce its decision
is no requirement for transfer route. For soon. Experts expect Biden to lift or
transit passengers, nucleic acid tests and reduce tariffs on a relatively tiny fraction
new health codes are required at the of imports: as little as $10 billion worth of
transit points. Also, China has decided Chinese products out of the roughly $350
to shorten the centralized quarantine billion in goods slapped with tariffs by
period for international travelers and former President Trump.
close contacts of confirmed COVID-19
cases from 14 to seven days. Following
a week of centralized quarantine, these
groups will go through three days of
1 AMCHAM SOUTH CHINA
Dr. Harley Seyedin Dear Members, self-isolation at home rather than the
previously required seven. People who
Winner of the 2017 Oslo Greetings, are close contacts of COVID close contacts
Business for Peace Award will undergo seven days of isolation at
(together with Elon Musk, The weather couldn’t have been more home rather than centralized quarantine.
Durren Shahnaz and Murad perfect for Round 1 of our international
AI-Katib) golf tournament on July 6 at Dongguan These Covid restriction requirements
Awarded by an Award Harbor Plaza Golf Club. Over 100 golfers, were announced a week before State
Committee of Nobel Laureates including several Consuls General from Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang
in Peace and Economics Consulates General in Guangzhou, Yi held talks with US Secretary of
Among few individuals on 232 attended the tournament. I don’t want to State Antony Blinken in Bali after the
years to be awarded the Thomas take too much away from our cover story conclusion of the G20 Foreign Ministers’
Jefferson initiated Peace on page 7, but it was a day of surprises Meeting. In a relationship as complex
through Commerce Medal by including Mauro Nardone becoming and consequential as the one between
the US Government our very first Hole in One winner. What a the United States and China, there is
great day and congratulations to all. I’m a lot to talk about. The two sides did
looking forward to our next two rounds have a comprehensive, in-depth and
in October and December. candid communication at length on
China-US relations and international
Talk about surprises, we still have a few and regional issues of mutual interest.
tickets available for our July 27 Whiskey, Both sides agreed that the dialogue
Caviar & Italian Bubbles, an even co- was substantive and constructive,
sponsored by Oggi Trattoria Pizzeria and has helped the two sides increase
and Oak and Barley. It will be a delicious mutual understanding, reduce
evening filled to the brim with delicacies misunderstanding and miscalculation,
such as an assortment of Italian canapes and accumulated conditions for future
and caviar savories, chocolates and high-level interactions. Wang Yi pointed
deserts, not to mention Italian sparkling out that the fundamental approach
wine and Five Regions of Scotch whiskey to steer China-US relations out of
flights. Don’t wait. July 22 is your difficulties is by earnestly implementing
deadline to buy your tickets. the common understandings reached by
the two Presidents.
We would like to send out a hardy
thanks to our friends at KPMG for co- The conversation between the
hosting our Insights on Post-Epidemic, two officials occurred as the Biden
Customs and Transfer Hot Topics. The administration began wrapping up a
seminar was a true eye-opener for many mandatory review of tariffs on Chinese
of our members. imports. Facing intense pressure to bring
down inflation any way it can, the Biden
We do have some good news on the administration is conducting its four-
domestic Covid front. Last month, China year review of the Section 301 tariffs
eased restrictions on international flights placed on furniture, footwear, sunscreen,
to China. Passengers can take direct appliances, bicycles and other consumer
flights or can transfer to China. Travelers goods, and officials have indicated the
can make multiple transfers and there White House will announce its decision
is no requirement for transfer route. For soon. Experts expect Biden to lift or
transit passengers, nucleic acid tests and reduce tariffs on a relatively tiny fraction
new health codes are required at the of imports: as little as $10 billion worth of
transit points. Also, China has decided Chinese products out of the roughly $350
to shorten the centralized quarantine billion in goods slapped with tariffs by
period for international travelers and former President Trump.
close contacts of confirmed COVID-19
cases from 14 to seven days. Following
a week of centralized quarantine, these
groups will go through three days of
1 AMCHAM SOUTH CHINA
