Contents of this Article Implications and Practicalities of China’s E-Commerce Law China E-Commerce Definitions China E-Commerce Operators Impacts on Foreign Businesses Basic Aspects of the E-Commerce Law What Constitutes E-Commerce Activities Under Chinese Law? Are Foreign Businesses Subject to China’s New E-Commerce Law? Impacts on Foreign Brands Selling to China’s Consumers via Cross-Border E-Commerce Implications
1. What is an NNN Agreement? A Non-disclosure, Non-use and Non-circumvention Agreement (NNN) is an agreement used to protect confidential information, and to prevent a company or person from using your information to compete against you or go around you to your own customers. These contracts are commonly used before revealing anything important to anyone
1. Typical Boilerplate Provisions The Western world — particularly the Anglo-Saxon/common law world — is used to ultra-long contracts for everything. A contract to buy $6,000 worth of rubber duckies will include all sorts of boilerplate provisions, such as one making clear that buying rubber duckies does not make the buyer and seller parties a
ليس من المستجدات أن سلطات العمل الصينية تشدد إجراءاتها ضد أرباب العمل الذين يتقاعسون عن سداد اشتراكات التأمين الاجتماعي لموظفيهم. لكن الجديد هو أن سلطات العمل الصينية ترتقي بهذه الإجراءات إلى مستوى أعلى. ففي الأسبوع الماضي، قامت 28 جهة حكومية (بما في ذلك اللجنة الوطنية للتنمية والإصلاح، وبنك الشعب
في 5 سبتمبر 2018، أصدر المجلس الوطني لنواب الشعب الصيني مسودة جديدة لـ«بعض مواد القانون المدني الصيني» (المشار إليها فيما يلي بـ«المسودة») لفتح باب التعليقات العامة عليها حتى أوائل نوفمبر. ومن شأن هذه المسودة أن توفر حماية معززة ضد التحرش الجنسي على المستوى الوطني، كما ستفرض المزيد من الالتزامات على أرباب العمل في الصين. وفيما يلي بعض النقاط البارزة
In the past few months, our China lawyers have been seeing something new and troubling with China licensing agreements. Before I explain, let me step back and give a bit of history. This post is important so please stay with me. In a typical China licensing deal the foreign licensor grants the Chinese licensee the
Like so many other U.S. industries, the U.S. vaping industry is now in the crosshairs of a 25% tariff on products imported from China. The first two waves of proposed tariffs against China covered about $50 billion worth of Chinese products, but did not include vaping products. After China retaliated and proposed its own equivalent
It is nearly always a good idea to have your Chinese counter-party “chop” or “seal” your China contracts with their official China company chop. There are many types of company chops. Which one should be used? How do you know if the company chop is real? What does a real China company chop look like?
Hardly a day goes by without one of our China employment lawyers getting an email from a China expat seeking legal help involving an ex-employer. Many times they will briefly describe their situation and conclude their email with something like, “do I have a case?” Our employment attorneys nearly always respond with something like the
Forming a WFOE in China and then operating that business in China is difficult and expensive. See e.g., Forming a China WFOE: Ten Things To Consider and See also Doing Business in China Without a WFOE: Will the Defendant Please Rise on why having a WFOE is a must if you will be doing business
