By Dan Harris Pretty much every week or so in 2017, our China lawyers would get emails from companies asking us one of the following: … [Read more...]
Would the last company manufacturing in China please turn off the lights
By Dan Harris The title is an exaggeration, of course. But with my law firm’s international lawyers fielding a steady stream of client requests for help with leaving China for Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, India, The Philippines, Indonesia, India and Turkey (mostly), it does sometimes feel as though within three years nobody will be … [Read more...]
Does the future of Vietnam manufacturing depend on Taiwan?
By Renaud Anjoran I talked with a client who was working in a Taiwanese factory established in Guangdong in the early 1990s. It had been set up recently — production was previously done in Taiwan. … [Read more...]
Transferring production from China to Vietnam to avoid tariffs
I am writing this from Vietnam, where the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on made-in-China goods mean new business opportunities. … [Read more...]
Upwork vs. a sourcing agency for managing your China production
By Renaud Anjoran Some importers take a shortcut as they set up their supply chain, and pay for it many times over a few years later. I want to cover one of these shortcuts today. … [Read more...]