Dan Harris in Forbes
Chinese legal expert Dan Harris emphasized supply chain risks based on questions his firm’s attorneys are hearing about production in Chines factories.
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Chinese legal expert Dan Harris emphasized supply chain risks based on questions his firm’s attorneys are hearing about production in Chines factories.
Smaller manufacturers that lack multinationals’ global support staffs are scrambling to assess the threat to their operations. “They are freaking out,” said Dan Harris, a Seattle-based attorney whose clients operate in China. “It’s extremely difficult to plan because nobody knows what’s going to happen.”
This could indicate that even though there is an agreement in place, Beijing might ignore it, as Dan Harris of the China Law blog points out.
“The problem isn’t the law,” he says. “It’s that when something is important to China – some cutting edge technology that it wants – then those laws don’t have any use at all.”
“It all sounds great in theory,” said Dan Harris, a Seattle lawyer whose firm advises companies of all sizes on operating in China. “The problem is, China has a long history of putting very-good-looking things into law, especially its intellectual-property laws, and then not following through when it doesn’t want to.”
“US financial sanctions are incredibly powerful because the dollar – though weakened – is still very powerful. Companies that operate internationally do not want to be on the wrong side of US financial sanctions. Look what Huawei is accused of having done to try to avoid them,” Harris said.