The FCPA Professor Blog is out with a blog post entitled ”‘Foreign Official’” First” on what constitutes a foreign official for purposes of the United States’ Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). According to the FCPA Professor Blog, “for the first time in FCPA history, a [United States] federal court judge, with the benefit of a detailed [...]
More than three years ago, I did a post, entitled, “I Hate Alibaba (The Website, Not The Company),” voicing my concerns with foreign companies thinking that they were safe sourcing through Alibaba. My concern at that time stemmed from the fact that many of the calls my office was getting regarding really bad or never delivered [...]
Just came across a really good, really easy to read guidebook on China. The guide is the third edition of the China Business Guide and it is put out by The China-Britain Business Council (CBBC). Not only is it good, but it is a free download. It is about 100 pages and it touches on the [...]
One of the things that drives me nuts is how some businesspeople act as though the laws in China are so unclear that either nobody knows how to do things right or that there is no point in even trying.
But in so many areas of China business, there is a real uniformity of views among lawyers [...]
David Woronov, a Boston-based international lawyer told me a very instructive China trademark story the other day.
Seems a company had come to David with a big China trademark problem. This company had decided to have its products manufactured in China and it thought it could rely on its United States and Madrid protocol filings to [...]
As I wrote a few weeks ago, in a post entitled, “China Manufacturing: “We’re Bringing It Back Home,“ we are getting a rapidly increasing amount of work helping American companies shut down their operations in China. Rising wages in China, coupled with a rising Renminbi and rising costs overall are causing American companies to reaccess China [...]
Client just sent me a link to a United States Government internet “brochure” on “Protecting Your Intellectual Property Rights in China” along with a note saying “this is what you are always saying.” It is what I am always saying, and though this information appears to be about ten years old, near as I can [...]
For years I used to simply discount Minxin Pei. As China kept rising, Minxin Pei kept talking of its imminent collapse. Though I always appreciated his analysis, I stopped reading him as he became more and more the boy who cried wolf. It has been at least two years (I am guessing) since I bothered [...]
I just read an article by CNBC Columnist Shaun Rein, entitled, “Why A Fast Appreciating Yuan Won’t Help US Economy,” and I have a few bones to pick with it.
Let me start out by saying that I “talk China” pretty much every day and I have never spoken with anyone who believes that all [...]
By: Rebecca Carlson
NOTE: Rebecca is a new lawyer at the Harris & Moure law firm and this is her first post on this blog. Rebecca recently graduated from the University of Washington School of Law with a J.D. degree and an L.L.M. (advanced law degree) in East Asian Studies. Rebecca is fluent in Japanese and [...]