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 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 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. The data points tell us where China is heading and they are saying that its economy is tanking as it continues to decouple.
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
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
When my law firm’s international manufacturing lawyers work on international manufacturing arrangements, we never just draft a “straight NDA.” Instead, we draft a “non-disclosure/non-use/non-circumvention agreement” that we refer to as an NNN Agreement. Why? Because a Western-style NDA is worthless or worse for China. For China, you need a China-specific NNN Agreement. 1. China NNN
China Business Risks: The Questions We Got. In this post we answer 18 questions regarding China risks, posed to us during our recent webinar.
China employee problems are increasing. We explain how to prevent such problems from occuring and how to nip them in the bud when they do.
China business risks. The webinar.
