Business Guides

The following guides provide a brief introduction to the investment environment and business issues of each specified country. Any company planning to trade with or invest in one or more of the countries listed below is advised to familiarise itself with the content of the relevant section.

Generic:

A Checklist for Public-Private Partnership Projects

(World Bank Group)
 

Belt and Road and PPP Projects Guides

(Dentons)
 

Hong Kong: The Gateway for Chinese Outbound Investment

(HKTDC)
 

ICC Investment Guides

(United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)
 

Joint Development Agreement Termsheet

(World Bank Group)
 

Reference Term Sheet for Infrastructure Investments in Emerging Markets

(HKMA Infrastructure Financing Facilitation Office)
 

Country/Region specific:

Briefings

(Clifford Chance)
 

Briefings (Chinese)

(Ministry of Commerce PRC)
 

Country Guides (Chinese)

(Shanghai and the Belt and Road – Economic and Trade Information Service Platform)
 

Country Profiles

(China’s official website on the Belt and Road Portal)
 

Doing Business

(World Bank Group)
 

Doing Business in Country Guides

(Baker Tilly Intonal)
 

Doing Business in India

(SKP)
 

Doing Business in Indonesia

(PwC)
 

Doing Business in Vietnam

(PwC)
 

Guide to Foreign Investment and Cooperation by country / region

(Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China) [in Chinese only]
 

Guide to Going Global Series

(DLA Piper)
 

Guide to Going Global Series Investment Environment by Country (Chinese)

(Ministry of Economic Affairs Taiwan)
 

Investing in Central Europe

(Deloitte)
 

Library

(EY)
 

UNCTAD – ICC Investment Guides(Chinese)

(United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)
 

The World Factbook

(Central Intelligence Agency of United States Government)
 

 

AFP Risk Survey 2017 – Report of Survey Results

(Marsh)
 

Asia Market Review 2016 - Annual Report on Insurance and Risk Trends

(Aon)
 

Country Risk Classification

(OECD)
 

Country-risk Rating of Overseas Investment from China （2017）

(Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
 

Economic Studies/Country Risks Assessments

(Coface)
 

Global Risk Center – Risk Culture

(Marsh)
 

Political and Economic Risks Profiles

(Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corporation)
 

Political Risk Map 2017

(Aon)
 

Prospects and challenges on China’s ‘one belt, one road’: a risk assessment report

(The EIU)
 

Risk Analysis

(The EIU)
 

Risk Outlook – Credit, Political and Security Risk 2016

(by JLT)
 

Sovereigns

(DBRS)
 

Sovereigns

(Fitch Ratings)
 

Standard & Poor's

(Standard & Poor's)
 

Generic:

Central Eastern European Tax

(MAZARS)
 

Global Tax Guides

(EY)
 

Individual Income Tax Regulations and Risk Management Guide for Outbound Chinese Enterprises 2016

(EY)
 

International Tax Handbook

(Nexia International)
 

Tax

(OECD)
 

Taxation Guides (by country)

State Administration of Taxation (PRC)
 

Taxation and Investment Guides by Country / Region

(Deloitte)
 

Taxation Trends in the European Union

(European Commission – Directorate General for Taxation and Customs Union)
 

Tax Tools & Resources

(KPMG)
 

Worldwide Tax Summaries

(PwC)
 

Country/Region specific:

Taxation in Russia

(The Taxation Institute of Hong Kong)
 

Taxation in the United Arab Emirates

(The Taxation Institute of Hong Kong)
 

 

Arbitration under the HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules

(Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre)
 

Developing Hong Kong as the Legal Hub for the Belt and Road

(Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre)
 

Judicial Systems of Belt and Road-related Economies and AIIB Members

(Hong Kong Policy Research Institute)
 

Legal Risks of International Infrastructure Development Projects

(Hong Kong Policy Research Institute)
 

Outline of Bilateral Loan Agreement

(The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Corporation Limited and Asia Pacific Loan Market Association)
 

Sample Clauses in Public-Private Partnership Contracts

(World Bank Group)
 
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