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Europe and the United States have begun to revise terms and increase global foreign direct investment review

2024-08-26

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[The annual report recently released by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) shows that CFIUS is paying more and more attention to compliance and law enforcement, and the number of civil fines issued in 2023 is unprecedented. In Europe, the EU proposed further reforms to the EU Foreign Direct Investment Screening Regulation, which came into effect in 2020, to broaden the jurisdiction of the foreign investment review system. In Asia, even Singapore, which is famous for its business friendliness, has introduced the Significant Investment Review Act (SIRA), hoping to use "new tools" to "manage major investments in key entities." ]

[According to the World Investment Report 2024, global FDI fell 2% in 2023 to $1.3 trillion amid an economic slowdown and rising geopolitical tensions.]

[The UNCTAD report found that nearly half (45%) of all policy changes that adversely affected foreign investors were the result of countries creating or expanding FDI screening mechanisms.]

Since the beginning of this year, Europe and the United States have tended to further intensify their scrutiny of foreign direct investment (FDI).

The annual report recently released by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) shows that CFIUS is paying more and more attention to compliance and law enforcement, and the number of civil fines issued in 2023 is unprecedented. In Europe, the EU proposed further reforms to the EU Foreign Direct Investment Screening Regulation, which came into effect in 2020, to broaden the jurisdiction of the foreign investment review system. In Asia, even Singapore, which is famous for its business friendliness, has introduced the Significant Investment Review Act (SIRA), hoping to use "new tools" to "manage major investments in key entities."