If you are importing a Made in China product covered (or maybe covered) by an antidumping or countervailing duty order, you must be very careful, no matter the country from which you are directly importing the product. Two recent U.S. Commerce Department decisions to expand antidumping (“AD”) and countervailing duty (“CVD”) orders on plywood to
随着最近关税的冲击，我们的国际制造业律师正越来越多地为中国以外的亚洲国家起草制造合同。仅在过去几周，我们就为越南、马来西亚、印度尼西亚、台湾和印度起草了制造合同。我们还看到墨西哥的合同也有明显的上升。我们的问题之一是
Everything China comes in waves and China trademark “theft” is no different. When we first started this blog back in 2006, we would get a call just about every week from someone wanting to sue a Chinese company blocking the company’s product from leaving China. We hated those calls because most of the time our
China manufacturing contracts are very different from Western manufacturing contracts, for reasons which stem from differences in laws or differences in economics. This means our China manufacturing lawyers often must explain why they are doing something in China manufacturing so different from the way the client “always does it” in the West. One of 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
A lawyer friend of mine emailed me a link the other day that had been sent to him by one of his clients. The link was to an article written nearly two years ago, China Supplier Vetting, Part 1: Background Checks, and he wanted my opinion on it. I responded by telling my friend that
As outlined in Self Driving Cars in China: The Roadmap and the Risks, the Chinese government is pushing hard to develop a Chinese based self driving car. In reviewing China’s proposed legislative framework and recent books from China, we can see how China’s system offers unique advantages for developing fully autonomous vehicles. China does not seem
My law firm writes more China NNN Agreements than any other contract. We have been drafting 5-15 of these a month for more than 15 years. These are basic and important agreements no matter what your industry. We write China NNN Agreements to protect against disclosure, competition, and circumvention. For more on what goes into
Our China IP lawyers have lately been seeing a steady increase in China design patent filings, as Western companies increasingly come to understand the need to be proactive in protecting their IP from China. We file most design patents to protect product designs, but some are filed for defensive purposes. The defensive design patents are
Nobody disputes that Chinese factories that make OEM products for American and European companies are increasingly looking to make their own products for selling directly to consumers. Nobody disputes that online marketplaces have made this much easier. And yet, without fail, and at least once a week, my law firm gets an email from a
