China Sourcer Magazine is out with its second issue and it is good. The issue is dedicated to China trade shows and it is chock full of helpful information on what to do before, during, and after a China trade show. My favorite part of this issue was actually the Q&A section with the… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Liability Insurance For China Products. The How To.
Posted in China BusinessA few months ago, I was speaking with Michael Perry, a Vice President at DLD Insurance Brokers in Los Angeles. Micheal has a wealth of experience in placing international insurance policies and I was picking his brain regarding product liability policies for U.S. companies that get their product from China when I realized Michael’s knowledge would be… Continue Reading
Sourcing From China. I Feel Happy, Oh So Happy.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsI admit it. The more depressing and violent and gritty the movie or the TV show, the more I like it. And as a lawyer, I take perverse pleasure in using gruesome stories to scare people straight. At my last speaking event, I told of how my old law firm had lost its insider standing… Continue Reading
SME Legal Bills In China. I’m So Glad You Asked.
Posted in Legal NewsI was talking with a client today for whom we are doing what I consider to be our standard China start-up “package.” We are helping them form a WFOE, helping with the legal side of their lease, registering and protecting their IP in China, and drafting their China employee manuals and employee contracts. I mapped… Continue Reading
Guide To Dispute Resolution In Asia, Including China.
Posted in Legal News, Recommended ReadingLondon based mega law firm Herbert Smith just came out with its eighth edition of its “Guide to dispute resolution in Asia” and it is excellent. This guide “is intended to provide a concise, accessible overview of the practical issues involving dispute resolution across the region,” and that is exactly what it does. The guide has… Continue Reading
The China Law Blog World Tour. Don’t Miss It.
Posted in EventsI am going to be speaking on China/International law a whole host of times between now and early November and since my first one is on Monday, now’s the time to tell you about them. So here goes. On Monday, September 27, I am going to be live on Oregon public radio at some point… Continue Reading
Doing Business In China? Just Get A Seal.
Posted in Basics of China Business Law, Legal NewsJust got a call from a United States client who is being told it needs a seal on a relatively unimportant document to be filed in China. Their question to me was whether the seal is “really” required. I told them they had the following two choices: 1. Pay my law firm a lot of… Continue Reading
Hiring A Chinese Employee Without A Chinese Entity. Good Luck With That.
Posted in Legal NewsAmerican companies are constantly asking us to draft employment contracts between their American company and their Chinese “employee.” One big problem. Such contracts violate Chinese law. Under Chinese law, only Chinese entities are allowed to have employees based in China. in addition, China does not generally allow for the hiring of independent contractors. If a… Continue Reading
It’s Time To Export To China (And The Other BRICs). And Here’s How.
Posted in China BusinessThe Portland Business Journal just published an article by my long-time friend, Alexander Aginsky. Alex is a Thunderbird MBA who for the last ten years or so has been assisting American companies going into emerging markets and emerging market companies coming into the United States, through his company Aginsky Consulting, “a boutique market entry consulting… Continue Reading
Chinese Science Rising. There Will Be Innovation.
Posted in China Business, Recommended ReadingI went to a dinner the other day, attended by a neighbor who is one of the world’s foremost experts in some niche area related to cleaning up land sites contaminated by oil. We got to talking about China and he talked of how “about half” the published scientific material he is seeing these days… Continue Reading
China And Lose-Lose Negotiating.
Posted in China BusinessThere’s an old joke about a Frenchman, an Englishman and a Russian who are told they have only one day until the end of the world. The Frenchman says he will spend his last day with a bottle of Bordeaux and a beautiful woman. The Englishman says he will take his favorite sheepdog for a… Continue Reading
China Blogs: That’s The way, Uh-Huh Uh-Huh, We Like It, Uh-Huh, Uh-Huh. Part VII
Posted in Recommended ReadingAbout a year ago, in Part I of this series, I promised we would go through our blogroll and justify and expound upon each blog, five by five. Six months ago, I did Part 6 of this series. This is the seventh of this slowly running series, where I explain, in alphabetical order, why it… Continue Reading
China Opportunities
Posted in China BusinessI speak at so many China events and I attend even more. I typically bring my iPad and when I find a topic or speaker particularly interesting, I tap away. I just found this on my iPad and though I have no idea who said it, I like it and I agree with it. The… Continue Reading
China Anti Corruption Conference In Beijing, November 30 – December 2.
Posted in EventsWe have consistently harped on the importance of global companies having an anti-corruption policy in place. In response to that, we are often asked how companies should go about formulating their anti-corruption policies and what more can they do. As I am not an anti-corruption expert, I typically tell them they should both bone up… Continue Reading
China Law. Making Money Off The Misery Of Others.
Posted in Legal NewsA truism about lawyers is that we benefit when the economy is either rising or falling, so long as there is change. I was talking with a China lawyer friend the other day regarding his firm’s very small China office and we both talked of how we were getting all sorts of work related to… Continue Reading
China-Hong Kong Flights Just Got Cheaper.
Posted in China TravelFlying to Hong Kong from the Mainland has always been surprisingly expensive. But no more. According to the China Economic Review, China Budget airline, Spring Airlines, has just announced that it will be pricing its Hong Kong-Shanghai route at as low as RMB398 (US $59), roundtrip, “less than a third of the current lowest air… Continue Reading
China. A Really Good Place To Do Business.
Posted in China BusinessBy Steve Dickinson Our clients are always talking about where they should invest in Asia. Even more so of late in light of recent concerns that China is no longer a preferred destination for foreign investment. I have argued consistently that China is the most attractive place for investment in Asia. There simply is no… Continue Reading
China Joint Ventures. Who’s Your Partner?
Posted in Legal NewsBy Steve Dickinson The Chinese Supreme Court recently issued a set of regulations to be used in court cases involving disputes within foreign invested enterprises (最高人民法院关于审理外商投资企业纠纷案件若干问题的规定). These regulations came into effect on August 16, 2010. The official Chinese version can be found on the Supreme Court website here. Though the Regulations are technically concerned with… Continue Reading
China Truck Manufacturing Writ Large As Global Trade Microcosm.
Posted in China BusinessA few years ago, I would get calls from some of the television business shows asking me to come on to speak about China stocks or particular industries. I would always refuse by saying that I am a lawyer, not a stock analyst. I am still unqualified as an industry analyst and many of these… Continue Reading
China Corruption. Et Tu? Do You Even Know?
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsLast week, Rich Brubaker of All Roads Lead to China did an excellent post on China business risks, covering, among other things, corruption/bribery. An interesting mini-discussion on bribery has ensued in the comments section and in one of those sections, Rich listed out what he sees as the three prime examples of foreign companies engaging… Continue Reading
A China That Can Say “Whatever.”
Posted in China BusinessChina Economic Review is just out with an article by co-blogger Steve Dickinson entitled,”Calling their bluff.” The subtitled explains the article: “Foreign investors are queuing up to criticize China, but Beijing knows they aren’t about to leave, says Steven M. Dickinson.” Steve starts out by citing to the recent rash of foreign companies criticizing China… Continue Reading
Experience Not Logic Returns To China Law Blogging. Hallelujah.
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China Law Discussions. The ListServ Lives.
Posted in Recommended ReadingFor many years now I have been a happy member of the excellent and venerable ChinaLaw ListServe. The ListServe is expertly run by Donald Clarke, a law professor at George Washington University and the force behind the seminal China Law Prof Blog. The ListServ has been in existence since 2004 and it has nearly 1,400 subscribers,… Continue Reading
Operating Illegally In China. Half-Assing It Does Not Help.
Posted in Legal NewsFairly regularly, we get an email from a foreigner living in China who wants to go into business in China with their girlfriend/fiancé/wife’s family (yes it is always a male). This person wants to know how they can do this and we tell them that there are really only two ways. One is as a… Continue Reading
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