Some buyers ask me if China product quality is going up over time. It is a tough question.
I am not going to badmouth Chinese factories in this post. They are certainly not the only ones to blame. A good proportion of quality issues in China pop up because the importer doesn’t take his responsibility.
Anyway, I don’t [...]
The export cartons are the cartons handled during transport to the importing country. Many importers leave the cartons’ specifications up to the supplier’s choice, but in Asia this can be a big mistake.
Properly-designed export cartons ensure that the products, but also the “inner packing” (which is often used on the point of purchase), are protected. [...]
Chinese factory workers are often seen as the obstacle to higher quality, fewer working hours, and better safety measures. Let’s study each of these issues separately:
1. Chinese factory workers, not capable of good workmanship?
As I wrote before, managers like to point to individual operators as the cause of quality problems. And I admit it is [...]
What is the difference between statistical quality control and unprofessional inspections? A professional inspector will follow a valid sampling plan.
A sampling plan should take care of three fundamental concerns:
There should be a clear limit between acceptability and refusal,
This limit should be set before inspection starts (actually, even before production starts) and be transparent for the [...]
What are the relative advantages of China over India, when it comes to sourcing products? The China Law Blog came up with two different posts covering this question… And a reader called Joel Waldman came up with very interesting comments that I am going to reproduce in this post.
From what he wrote, he has been living in India for 30 [...]
Another week flies by – with the help of a post Chinese New Year surge – and it is already the end of February! So without further delay, here is our ChinaBlogTweets roundup of China business news from last week.
Going Global joelbackaler Whose your favorite of FastCompany 10 most innovative Chinese companies http://bit.ly/dlAugb @sagebrennan favs [...]
We have not had a review of China’s legal eagles on this blog since October 2004!
Thanks to China Daily, we can now provide an overdue and updated snapshot of the legal sector in China.
China Law, By Numbers
• Lawyers: Over 166,000 (up from 110,000 in 2004)
• Law Firms: Over 15,000 (up [...]
China, the US and the EU are all involved in trade disputes (and the odd protectionist thought). One suspects political as well as economic drivers. But let’s hope it does not run off the rails and end in another nasty crash…
While they are nothing new (see here), protectionist tensions are never far below the surface [...]
I feel somewhat obligated to respond to the latest Washington Post poll on American views of China. It’s not that I think it’s a good poll or that the results matter to most people, but the whole US-China perception subject is one of my “things.” Moreover, these ridiculous polls have a tendency to have an [...]
I was perusing the headlines on the Legal Daily site (not recommended, by the way), and I was struck with the following observation: there are only two types of stories on there. The first is your basic “The government is fighting a valiant effort against the scourge of XYZ” story — look for “打击” in [...]