The New York Times has an excellent article on doing business in China. The article is entitled, “New Path for Trade: Selling in China,” and it is replete with good advice. Except mine. Let me explain. The article is on selling goods in or into China and it talks of the great opportunities there and… Continue Reading
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The Best Way To Do Business With China. Joint Venture, Rep Office, Licensing Agreement, Distributorship, Export Selling?
Posted in China BusinessRichard Brubaker over at All Roads Lead to China just did an interesting post on the return of China Joint Ventures. The post is entitled “Who is up for another round of Joint Ventures,” and its thesis is that China is getting tougher on foreigners so foreigners are reconsidering the value of a Joint Venture… Continue Reading
Doing Business In China By Starting A Business In China. The Legal Basics.
Posted in Basics of China Business Law, Legal NewsOne of the most common calls my law firm receives is the one from someone saying that they want to “start a business in China.” The first thing we do with that sort of caller is to seek to ascertain whether a China business is actually necessary. Forming and then operating a business entity in… Continue Reading
Selling Your Product Into China. What You Need To Know.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsABC News is pushing (I received two different emails from ABC on it) a Diane Sawyer/ABC News clip entitled, “‘Made in America’ Products Selling in China.” Though it is the proverbial 3.28 minute puff piece, it is right on the big picture. There are huge opportunities to sell American product and American products are viewed… Continue Reading
China Rep Offices, Bankruptcies And The Perils Of Being Chief Representative
Posted in Legal NewsI know I keep reading how China’s economy is just fine, but my firm just keeps getting more inquiries and more work relating to shutting down offices and companies in China. Of those, the most heartbreaking are coming from Chief Representatives of China Representative Offices who are concerned about their own liabilities when their China… Continue Reading
You Have Registered Your China Company/IP, Now Pay Up. NO DON’T.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsWe should have written on this years ago, but since it has never presented a real problem for my firm’s clients, it just never really rose to a level that it occurred to me. My mistake. The it to which I am referring is the send out a bill scam to whomever has just registered… Continue Reading
Is China Moving Against Unregistered Companies?
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsGot an unusual phone call from a client yesterday. The client is an American company that conducts business with China, not in China. This means that there is absolutely no legal requirement that it have a Chinese entity such as a WFOE or a Joint Venture or a Rep Office. What it does with China… Continue Reading
Leasing Requirements For A China WFOE To Be, Part II.
Posted in Legal NewsLast week I did a quick post on the leasing requirements for forming a WFOE. That post generated some excellent comments/questions, hence, this Part II. A couple people asked about the legality of “virtual offices.” Virtual offices were once common in China though as far as I know, they have always been 100% improper for… Continue Reading
Quasi-Legal In China. Not The Place You Want To Be.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsThis post is essentially a re-running of a post we did at the end of last year. We are re-running it because as China’s economy starts to waver, the Chinese government seems to have stepped up both its tax collection and its closing of illegal foreign businesses another notch. I received two calls just last… Continue Reading
China’s Internet Is Not Your Father’s Internet
Posted in China Business, Recommended ReadingI cannot tell you how many times we have had to explain to people why we do not have a Chinese language version of our China Law Blog, but each time the explanation is the same. Our blog posts are written for Western businesses already in or doing business with China, or looking to do… Continue Reading
The Most Common China Law Issues.
Posted in Basics of China Business Law, China Business, Legal NewsClients, potential clients and the press are always asking me what foreign companies that do business in China need to know to stay out of legal trouble. Next time I get such a question, I will refer them to the list below as it sets out the most common legal issues foreign companies face when… Continue Reading
It’s Your Business. Not Your Chinese Partner’s.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsIf you are a foreign business, it will not be easy or cheap for you to set up a business to operate legally in China. The following is just the most basic of lists of what you need to do to set up and operate legally in China: Register your legal entity in China. This… Continue Reading
How To Form a China WFOE. Scope Really Really Matters.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsPretty much every week my law firm gets contacted by an American or European company with big plans for China. Almost invariably (and this is a good thing), this company has spent tens of thousands of dollars in researching China for their business and in travelling back and forth to China to scope things out…. Continue Reading
How To Start A China Business — Representative Office
Posted in Basics of China Business LawI am always saying that for every 100 China WFOEs and Joint Ventures my law firm helps set up in China, it does one representative office. Why so few, when it is generally agreed that representative offices are the easiest type of offices for foreign firms to set up in China? Because the inherent limitations… Continue Reading
Do I Really Need A Chinese Company?
Posted in Legal NewsI dunno. We recently did a couple of posts on what is required to form a Wholly Foreign Owned Entity (WFOE) in China. In the first of these posts, “How To Start A Business In China — WFOE,” we we set out the four main steps in forming a WFOE. In our second post, “How… Continue Reading
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