How to Close Your China Business The Airbnb (Right) Way
How to Close Your China Business. Reasons to leave China and how to do it correctly.
U.S.-China Trade Policy and The Future of China-Focused Section 301 Duties
U.S.-China Trade Policy and The Future of China-Focused Section 301 Duties and the best tariff mitigation strategies you should employ now.
Translating Contracts into Chinese Does Not a China Contract Make
Translating contracts for China does not a China contract make; you need a contract that has been written for China.
The Ten Keys to Preventing Counterfeiting of Your Products
The ten things you should be doing now to prevent (or at least minimize) the counterfeiting of your products.
Consolidating, Relocating and/or Closing Your China Operations: A May 24, 2022 Webinar
In tandem with East West Associates, we will be putting on a three-part Webinar Series in May and June on how best to manage the challenges of manufacturing in China while seeking to diversify your supply chain networks and/or manufacture in Mexico or somewhere else outside of China. Our first webinar in this series will
Leaving China for Mexico: Lessons from the Ground
Leaving China for Mexico and alternative manufacturing destinations has been on every CEO’s mind for years. A couple of weeks ago, I joined a trade delegation to Mexico City and Guadalajara, led by Utah Governor Spencer Cox. This was the first trade delegation to Mexico by any U.S. governor since Covid rocked the world, and
Myanmar Update: The Junta Is Turning Its Back on Everyone But China
Myanmar is already or soon will be a failed state. This report describes how Mynamar continues to become more isolated, but for China.
This is China . . .
This is China. The data points tell us where China is heading and they are saying that its economy is tanking as it continues to decouple.
The Real Meaning of COVID-zero.
I got an email from a friend/client yesterday and I liked it so much I got his approval to run it, lightly edited to strip out any possible identifiers and with links added. This friend/client runs what was for a long time a very successful manufacturing business in China. He owns and operates a company
Lockdowns and China Service Providers
In recent months, the lockdowns brought on by China’s attempts to achieve zero-COVID have wreaked havoc on China’s manufacturing base and its supply chains. See The China Supply Chain Nightmare: It Is Time to Panic. But it’s not just manufacturing that is suffering. As I confirmed during a recent conference, China’s service providers are also