1. The New Tariffs The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) formally published a notice in the Federal Register (this means it is official) confirming President Trump’s by now famous weekend tweet: U.S. imports of Chinese products, valued at $200 billion, that have been subject to 10 percent tariff since September 24, 2018, will now be subject to
1. 美中关系恶化不足为奇自中美贸易谈判伊始，我们便对达成协议的可能性持明确否定态度，并因此承受了巨大压力——无论是通过仇恨邮件、网络攻击，还是来自部分客户的指责，他们认为我们过于
1. 中国背弃了开放经济的承诺十多年来，我始终近距离观察着中国。本律师事务所于2006年1月创立此博客，而在此之前我们早已开始为在华及亚洲其他地区的外资企业提供法律服务。当我们启动这个博客时——
Image by Ixocactus In a series of recent posts, we discussed how the media and many commentators have wrongly ascribed great things to the new PRC Foreign Investment Law. See New China Foreign Investment Law: Not Good News, China’s New Foreign Investment Law and Forced Technology Transfer: Same As it Ever Was and China Approves New
In China’s New Foreign Investment Law and Forced Technology Transfer: Same As it Ever Was and in China Approves New Foreign Investment Law to Level Playing Field for Foreign Companies. MEH, we wrote how we were not impressed with China’s new Foreign Investment Law 中华人民共和国外商投资法. Since then, a number of commentators (who near as I can
1. 我们没有这样的名单。抱歉。几乎每周都有人联系我们的国际制造业律师：a. 询问某家特定海外制造商的情况；b. 投诉某家特定制造商，并要求我们向博客读者披露该公司信息或向某政府机构/大使馆举报。
1. Selling a China WFOE In the last year or so, our China lawyers have been seeing a steady increase in emails from people inquiring about selling their China WFOEs. I have gotten three or four of these in the last month alone, including the following one this week, which is fairly typical: I have
Most of my China employment work is for employers, but in the last few years, my work representing expat employees keeps rising and it now equals roughly ten percent of my China employment practice. This increase in expat employment law matters is due to two things: Chinese companies are hiring more expats, and word has
File for Your China Trademark in China, not Madrid Whenever clients ask about China trademark registration through the Madrid System, my advice is pretty straightforward: filing directly with the Chinese Trademark Office (CTMO) is almost always the smarter choice. China’s Trademark System China’s trademark system is a bit of a maze—complex, idiosyncratic, and highly regimented.
