The Hong Kong Intermediary Trap: Do Not Contract with the Wrong China Company Foreign buyers like dealing with Hong Kong intermediaries. The emails are clear, the invoices look familiar, the bank account feels safer, and the person on the other end usually speaks better English than the factory contact. But in China manufacturing, invoices are
China Supply Chain Restructuring: Legal Traps in Moving, Selling, or Exiting China A U.S. manufacturer decides to move production from China to Mexico. The company’s technical team starts shipping over production files and the company opens early talks with a Chinese buyer for the plant. The move looks routine. Then the files raise an export-control
China Manufacturing Contracts: Why U.S. Drafts Do Not Work Clients often send us a U.S. manufacturing agreement and ask whether it can save time or money on a China manufacturing contract. It cannot. Sometimes the ask is smaller: can we just spend a couple of hours reviewing it? We decline because we will not bill
中国制造业合同：仅凭一份协议远远不够 一家美国公司最近接到其中国工厂的通知后，联系了我们的国际争议解决律师。该工厂表示，未来订单的价格将立即上调34%。该工厂掌握着客户的模具，也掌握着客户的设计方案。而且它
中国新出台的供应链安全规定增加了外资企业的风险 2026年4月7日，中国将供应链决策提升为国家安全决策。该规定于当日生效，未设过渡期。这些以国务院第834号令形式颁布的规定，为中国当局提供了调查和惩处外资企业的正式机制
China NNN Agreements work when they deter Chinese companies from misusing your IP. Here is when they help, when they do not, and how to draft one that will actually work.
将生产转移至墨西哥不仅仅是一个采购决策，更是一场法律和运营层面的重构。那些将中国与墨西哥之间的合同、劳工问题、知识产权、海关事务以及过渡流程视为次要考虑因素的企业，往往最终不得不为本可避免的错误买单。
在您的中国工厂尚未察觉您即将撤离，且您在新国家的计划尚未被外界知晓之前，您的谈判筹码通常最为有利。这一时机窗口不会持续太久。一旦窗口关闭，补救商标缺口、解决模具问题以及处理不良合同等事宜，不仅会变得更加缓慢、成本更高，而且难度也会大幅增加。有时这不仅会让撤离过程更加艰难，甚至可能导致撤离计划彻底失败。
如何与中国制造商进行谈判 大多数美国公司一听到“在中国不是这么做的”这句话，就会立刻退缩。他们还没弄清楚什么才是关键，就先软化语气、过度解释，并提出妥协方案。他们把这句话当作一条不容置疑的文化铁律，而不是……
