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Obstacles to Trade in Light of Contemporary Economic Development in China : Are Foreign Medical Device Companies Affected?

Falkvall, Jens (2010)
Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
Abstract
This thesis concentrates on foreign medical device companies´ difficulties in getting access to the Chinese market in a fair way. China has, just like Japan and Taiwan, implemented industrial policies in order to develop the domestic economy. Certain industries have been handpicked as champions for future growth and are therefore subject to preferential treatment. The preferential treatment, among other things, consists of non‐tariff barriers, which in turn negatively affect the operations of foreign medical device companies. In‐depth interviews have been conducted with Swedish medical device companies to understand the gist of the problem and secondary sources have in addition been used to back up the evidence and facts from the... (More)
This thesis concentrates on foreign medical device companies´ difficulties in getting access to the Chinese market in a fair way. China has, just like Japan and Taiwan, implemented industrial policies in order to develop the domestic economy. Certain industries have been handpicked as champions for future growth and are therefore subject to preferential treatment. The preferential treatment, among other things, consists of non‐tariff barriers, which in turn negatively affect the operations of foreign medical device companies. In‐depth interviews have been conducted with Swedish medical device companies to understand the gist of the problem and secondary sources have in addition been used to back up the evidence and facts from the interviews. (Less)
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author
Falkvall, Jens
supervisor
organization
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
developmental state, Chinese registration process, medical device companies, Trade obstacles, industrial policy
language
English
id
1670229
date added to LUP
2010-09-13 09:54:55
date last changed
2011-09-14 09:25:30
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  abstract     = {{This thesis concentrates on foreign medical device companies´ difficulties in getting access to the Chinese market in a fair way. China has, just like Japan and Taiwan, implemented industrial policies in order to develop the domestic economy. Certain industries have been handpicked as champions for future growth and are therefore subject to preferential treatment. The preferential treatment, among other things, consists of non‐tariff barriers, which in turn negatively affect the operations of foreign medical device companies. In‐depth interviews have been conducted with Swedish medical device companies to understand the gist of the problem and secondary sources have in addition been used to back up the evidence and facts from the interviews.}},
  author       = {{Falkvall, Jens}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Obstacles to Trade in Light of Contemporary Economic Development in China : Are Foreign Medical Device Companies Affected?}},
  year         = {{2010}},
}