Germany Set to Tighten Foreign-Investment Curbs, With Eye on China Deals

Germany Set to Tighten Foreign-Investment Curbs, With Eye on China Deals
A facility of the transmission grid operator 50Hertz in Bentwisch, eastern Germany, on April 17, 2018. Bernd Wuestneck/AFP/Getty Images
Frank Fang
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Berlin is set to make foreign investments in Germany’s strategically important sectors more difficult, after mounting concerns about Chinese business deals in recent years.

The current threshold for triggering a government national-security review of an investment by an entity outside of the European Union is a 25-percent stake in a German company. The Berlin government approved a proposal to lower the threshold to 10 percent—in an amendment to a law called the Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance (AWV), according to a Dec. 16 article by Germany’s business daily newspaper Handelsblatt.
Frank Fang
Frank Fang
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Frank Fang is a Taiwan-based journalist. He covers U.S., China, and Taiwan news. He holds a master's degree in materials science from Tsinghua University in Taiwan.
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