American and European companies are always asking us to revise their template NDA “to make it work” for China. Our response is always to say that it will be much faster, cheaper, easier and better for us to just start all over with a China-specific NNN. I then tell them that NDAs do not work for China and that the way to protect their IP is with an NNN Agreement. Fairly often they then reveal that…

If you are waiting for your Chinese investor to get your company promised investment funds any time soon, you are probably in for a long slog. Most companies, both private and public, do not care who provides their investment capital (as long as the investors are content being passive investors), and Chinese households have typically been lauded as excellent savers,  leaving money available to invest at home and abroad. With my law firm having…

In yesterday’s Part 1 (of what is rapidly becoming a series) of Foreign Companies in China: What We are Seeing and Hearing NOW, we provided updates on what is happening in China relevant to foreign companies doing business in China or with China. The gist of that post was that many foreign companies that manufacture in China are leaving China, reducing their footprint in China, or looking to leave China or reduce their footprint…

A number of our clients have been calling us nearly weekly of late for what they usually call “China briefings” or “China updates.” They mostly want to know what our China lawyers are hearing is happening to foreign companies in China. These calls usually consist of one of our China lawyers listing out the most recent things our firm is hearing about China (we have an entire Slack channel essentially dedicated to this) and then…

On June 6, 2019, Kyocera Senco Industrial Tools Inc. (Petitioner) filed antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) petitions against certain collated steel staples (“collated staples”) from China, Korea, and Taiwan. A copy of those petitions can be viewed here. Under U.S. trade laws, a domestic industry can petition the U.S. Department of Commerce (“DOC”) and U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”) to investigate whether the named subject imports are being sold to the United States…

This is part 4 of our series listing out eight+ things to read about China and a lot more. We constantly get emails from readers asking what to read on China and all sorts of things related and even barely related to China and the plan of this series would be to constantly and consistently answer this very question. We also have a few very loyal readers who often send us truly great articles on…