Renaud Anjoran over at the Quality Inspection Tips blog recently wrote on “How your Chinese suppliers might become your competitors.” Anjoran provides some excellent suggestions for preventing your China supplier from competing with you, based on his notes from a talk by Paul Melkebeke, Vice President Supply Asia for Samsonite. Melkebeke talked of how building a… Continue Reading
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The China NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement). Shut The Barn Door BEFORE The Horse Bolts.
Posted in Legal NewsJust 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
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
Do You Know What Your China Contract Says?
Posted in Legal NewsA potential client recently sent me a contract written in both Chinese and in English. The English portions were silent about the controlling language but the Chinese portion made crystal clear that the Chinese language portion would control. And guess what? The Chinese language portion was very different from the English language portion. So different,… Continue Reading
Buying A Chinese Company? Why China Deals DON’T Get Done.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsWe lawyers are known as deal-killers. Most lawyers get offended by that moniker and vehemently deny it. Me, I am more than willing to own up to it. Clients go to lawyers all excited about a deal and it is the lawyer’s job to point out the risks and to explain which of those risks… Continue Reading
Drafting A China Manufacturing Agreement. Watching The Sausage Get Made.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsI love it when a blog post just lands in my lap, and one just did. It is a couple of emails from two of my firm’s lawyers to two different clients, both of whom recently retained us to draft OEM Agreements for production of product by factories in China. Both clients are in the… Continue Reading
How To Achieve Problem Free China Outsourcing. Or Not.
Posted in China BusinessWe are always preaching that if you 1) choose a good manufacturer, 2) use a good OEM contract, 3) engage in good quality control monitoring, and register your trademark, the odds are overwhelming that you will do just fine in outsourcing your product from China. The odds just went down. In 2009 and 2010 and… Continue Reading
Injuring People With Your China Product. What To Do.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsI am often asked by my clients what they can do to minimize the risks of getting stuck holding the bag when the product they import from China either injures consumers and/or needs to be recalled. My first answer is usually “not a whole lot” and then I talk about how they need to inspect… Continue Reading
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