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How Your Home Country’s Law May Be Used in Chinese Court

October 20, 2012 Blogs

I was just reading Civil Procedure Law’s of the People’s Republic of China and found Article 5 to be interesting. They focus is reciprocity of rights and obligations of a foreign party, whether plaintiff or defendant, and those of a Chinese party. Article 5 starts out by stating both the

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How much have margins come down in the past ten years?

October 16, 2012 Another China Blog, Blogs

The answer depends on who you ask- manufacturers, brand holders, trading companies or sourcing agents. It also depends on the industry, but here is the big picture.

 

At the macro level, the trading companies and sourcing agents are getting cut out of the supply chain unless they provide real value.

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What is Foreign Direct Investment?

October 13, 2012 Blogs

At first glance foreign direct investment (“FDI”) sounds, well just that- “foreign” and hard to understand. So let me try to shed some of the obscurity. I am by providing a high level overview of what FDI is and a few things to consider.

Many times a businesses will find themselves

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Selling to China. Push vs. Pull strategies

October 9, 2012 Another China Blog, Blogs

I realize it is outside of the traditional China sourcing topics, but so many friends and family have asked me about how to open the China market for western products, I thought I would offer some comments to our readers who are contemplating a sell to China strategy.

 

The following cases

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Non-Material Change…that can Materially Impact You

October 6, 2012 Blogs

Article 31 of Contract Law of the People’s Republic of China in summary states that if someone accepts an offer, but in their acceptance makes a non-material change of the offer, acceptance is still made, save two instances. The first instance is when the offeror make a timely objection to

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