Just received the following comment to our post, How To Find And Deal With Chinese Manufacturers: I have a question, I sent a picture of a unique [product] and they sent back an email saying that they would like to manufacture it and when I said mine they corrected me by stateing ours. is this normal?… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: China manufacturing
Back-Shoring vs. Off-Shoring vs. Near-Shoring. China For China. Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off.
Posted in China BusinessMichael Zakkour, who constantly deals with global supply chains as part of his job as a China/Asia market strategist at Tompkins International,made a great comment on exactly that at our Linkedin China Law Blog Group today. Michael’s comment was in response to a Bill Dodson post entitled, “Backshoring to the Future.” In just a few paragraphs,… Continue Reading
Using Letters Of Credit With China Suppliers
Posted in China BusinessThis is a guest post from Renaud Anjoran. Renaud runs a product quality inspection business in Shenzhen and he also writes the truly excellent and perinially helpful Quality Inspection Tips. My firm has worked with Renaud on a number of China product matters and we have consistently found him to be highly knowledgeable about… Continue Reading
The Definitive/Comprehensive Guide To Manufacturing In China. Yes, Definitive And Comprehensive.
Posted in UncategorizedI just finished reading (most of it anyway) Bruce W. Mitchell’s book/tome, 13 Steps to Manufacturing in China. Shoot me if I don’t use the word “comprehensive” or some equivalent at least five times in this post. 13 Steps to Manufacturing in China is a comprehensive, soup to nuts break down of what needs to… Continue Reading
The End Of Cheap China. What Does It Mean, Anyway?
Posted in China BusinessSince we started this blog back in 2006, we wrote of how you should expect and prepare for China wages and other prices to rise. In our very first month, way back in January, 2006, in a post entitled, “China is Booming, Go There for Growth,” we warned of rising China prices: This article discusses… Continue Reading
The Grim Reality Of China Quality Control (QC)
Posted in China BusinessI have certain articles I send clients and potential clients in response to their questions. One of my favorites (and the one I send when anyone asks a question relating to what it is like dealing with a Chinese factory) is Ok, so it doesn’t meet your standards….so what? This post is by David Dayton… Continue Reading
JL Made. How To Buy Product From China.
Posted in China Business, Recommended ReadingI feel like one of the most important things I do on this blog is to steer people to other good writings on China. I recently learned of a very good blog on China manufacturing and so steer I will. The blog is called JLMade. JL Made mostly focuses on the basics of buying product… Continue Reading
Manufacturing Your Product In China.The Extreme Basics.
Posted in Basics of China Business Law, China Business, Legal NewsThe other day I received an email from a college student looking to form a business that would buy product from China and sell it in the United States. The email asked about the steps to take to get such a business going. Here is that email (modified slightly to maintain the anonymity of its… Continue Reading
How To Find The Right China Manufacturer And Get Good Product
Posted in China BusinessNew client of mine recently sent me a link to a post on the Quality Wars blog (a once good blog that has not posted since April) and asked me if it made sense. The post is entitled, How to Find a Good Factory in China and my response was, “yes, it most certainly does.”… Continue Reading
China Supplier Agreements. With Apologies To Kansas.
Posted in Legal NewsWhen foreign companies call to have us draft their Chinese supplier agreements (a/k/a OEM Agreements), we explain their basic points, usually consisting of the following: 1. We usually like the official version to be in Chinese. If something goes wrong, they usually will need to be enforced in a Chinese court and putting them in… Continue Reading
Moving To China’s Interior. The Pros And The Cons.
Posted in China BusinessIn February, I wrote a post, “China Manufacturing: “We’re Bringing It Back Home,” talking of how my law firm had been seeing a massive uptick in companies shutting down their China operations and returning to the United States. A very recent (and very widely discussed) Economist article, entitled, “Moving back to America:The dwindling allure of building… Continue Reading
Foreign Manufacturing In China. Would The Last Company There Please Turn Out The Lights.
Posted in China BusinessOf course it is not nearly as bad as our headline makes it out to be, but I wanted to make a strong point to counter the crowd that acts as though China is and always will be the factory to the world…. Discussion closed. All Roads Lead to China recently did a piece, elliptically… Continue Reading
Real China Business Advice. The Bad And The Ugly.
Posted in China BusinessStan Abrams over at China Hearsay has an excellent China post, entitled, “A Never-ending Supply of China Business Advice.“ The post starts out with Stan talking of how there has been so much written on how to do business in China and some of it is less than top-notch: At the same time, a lot of… Continue Reading
China Manufacturing: “We’re Bringing It Back Home.”
Posted in China BusinessI know many of our posts of late have been fairly negative on China, and I really wish this one were not, but I really have no choice but to “call ‘em like I see ‘em” We are constantly writing articles on what country is going to be the “next China” and I have mostly… Continue Reading
On Buying Product From China. A Run-Through On The Legal Basics.
Posted in Basics of China Business LawJust received a very typical email from someone looking to manufacture product in China: A bit of background on our company; we are a supplier and installer of _______ and following months of design and development have finally completed a prototype model of ___________ which we now want to manufacture in China. Following two months… 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
Why Non Disclosures (NDAs) Alone Are Not Enough For China.
Posted in Basics of China Business LawThe other day, I did a post on why Non-Disclosure Agreements are so often critical for those doing business with China. Within a few hours of that post, entitled, “China Non Disclosure Agreements (NDA). A Really Good Thing,” my co-blogger, Steve Dickinson, was pointing out how if we were going to talk about non disclosure… Continue Reading
China Auto. Are We There Yet?
Posted in Recommended ReadingThere are those who state confidently that China will own the worldwide car market within a few years (these people have been saying this for years — check out this post from three years ago where I rightly said NO WAY) and there are those who state it will never get there. My only qualifications… Continue Reading
China Manufacturers Learning About Trust. Well Sort Of.
Posted in Recommended ReadingJust read a very long, thoughtful post over at Stephen F. DeAngelis’s Enterprise Resilence Management Blog on the value of trust in business and on how China is just starting to appreciate the need to be trusted. The post is entitled, “China Learning About Resiliency and Trust” and Relence and it starts out by stating… Continue Reading
Chinese Government Says: Innovate
Posted in China BusinessThe Washington Post has an interesting article today on the lack of Chinese innovation, entitled, “In China, Dreams of Bright Ideas.“ The article’s subtitle, “From Top Down, A Push to Innovate,” is actually more telling, as it sums up China’s innovation problem: China is still a hierarchical country with an intrusive government. China’s government has… Continue Reading
Nicobar Group — China Manufacturing And Logistical Gurus
Posted in Good PeopleManufacturing good quality products efficiently is difficult. The slew of cultural and language difficulties make doing so in China even tougher. Barrett Comiskey and Andy Mulkerin, of the Nicobar Group are good people to call for help in this arena. The Nicobar Group focuses on assisting manufacturing companies in improving their cost structure in China… Continue Reading
Wall Street Journal China Briefings
Posted in Recommended ReadingI previously referred to the Wall Street Journal as “one of the few Western publications that deals fairly and accurately with China.” I recently had a chance to review the Wall Street Journal’s two China briefing publications and, not surprisingly, both are excellent. The two briefings are published every two weeks and can be sampled… Continue Reading
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