خدمة لاهاي لإجراءات التقاضي ضد المدعى عليهم الصينيين
This post describes how to properly effect service of process on a Chinese company or individual under the Hague Convention.
This post describes how to properly effect service of process on a Chinese company or individual under the Hague Convention.
In its design and use of the National Security Law, Beijing has been quite transparent. The question for foreign businesses is whether they are willing to be as clear-eyed.
The shift away from the unipolar and free trade-oriented world of the 1990s and early 2000s to the peer competition-driven managed trade and industrial policies of today has resulted in an increasingly restrictive and protected U.S. import environment. The significantly stepped-up enforcement activity that characterizes this trend has, in turn, increased compliance risk for U.S. importers. This post will attempt to help U.S. importers mitigate some of that compliance risk through a set of up-to-date import practice tips.
Increasing enmity between China and the West, stemming from China’s increasingly aggressive actions regarding Taiwan, China’s COVID-zero policy and a whole host of other issues facing foreign companies that do business in or with China, has caused foreign companies that do business in or with China to reassess. See Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan is
خلال الأشهر القليلة الماضية، شاركنا في العديد من المعاملات المتعلقة بالصين مع شركات لا تزال تمارس أنشطتها التجارية هناك. وتدرك هذه الشركات الفرص والمخاطر التجارية على حد سواء. (أما أولئك الذين لا يدركون المخاطر تمامًا، فيواصلون إبرام صفقاتهم التجارية دون الاستعانة بمحامٍ في المراحل الأولية، مما يعني أننا عادةً ما نتلقى اتصالات منهم عندما تقع مشكلة ما).
With all that has been happening, the international manufacturing lawyers at my law firm have been getting a steady stream of phone calls and emails from companies looking to leave China and many of those companies are curious about Mexico.
دخل قانون جديد للمقامرة حيز التنفيذ في ماكاو اعتبارًا من 21 يونيو 2022. ففي ذلك اليوم، وافقت الجمعية التشريعية في ماكاو على القانون رقم 7/2022، الذي يعدل قانونًا صادرًا عام 2001. ورغم أن الإطار القانوني للمقامرة لم يتغير جوهريًّا، فإن القانون المعدل يعطي لمحة عما سيحدث مستقبلاً، ليس فقط بالنسبة لكازينوهات ماكاو، بل بالنسبة لماكاو نفسها.
CEOs and senior managers have been struggling to make good decisions about supply chain and factory sites, and a lot of their research is pointing to Mexico as a likely candidate. The problem facing decision-makers is that the China-Mexico comparison is not apples to apples (DO NOT make avocado-lychee reference). Even though the same output is leaving the factory gate in each economy, your challenges in setting up and managing operations in China and Mexico could not be more different.
If you purchase products from China (or most anywhere else oversees), do NOT use FOB as a shipping term.
About six months ago, in Deliberately Bringing China Down, Factory by Factory, I wrote about a couple of Americans who were buying product on credit from Chinese factories, with no intention of ever making the required second payment: The “this” to which I am referring is an underground (I say underground because I have never