The gifts market is evolving and this is reflected on the kind of gifts consumers buy and give. In the choice of gifts, today’s consumers are placing more value on function and practicality, paving the way for the rise of tech-driven gifts, many of which sport innovative features. … [Read more...]
The right way to reduce your China product costs
By Dan Harris In China Factories Are Exporting Lower Prices Around the World, Bloomberg News wrote this week about something our internmational manufacturing lawyers have been seeing: Desperate Chinese factories are lowering their prices. Are all Chinese factories desperate? Absolutely not. Are all Chinese factories lowering their prices? Near … [Read more...]
How China’s new cybersecurity laws can (will?) destroy your business
By Dan Harris In China’s New Cybersecurity Program: NO Place to Hide and again in China’s New Cybersecurity System: There is NO Place to Hide we wrote how China’s new “cybersecurity” laws give the Chinese government and its prized companies full and total access to all data and IP held by foreign companies. Yesterday, in China’s New … [Read more...]
Quality planning for importers: Classify orders by risk level
By Renaud Anjoran Every purchaser knows that some orders are riskier than others and the risk impacts many of the decisions they make. This is why quality planning and classifying orders by risk level is important for importers. … [Read more...]
China’s new cryptography law: Still no place to hide
By Steve Dickinson The PRC National People’s Congress on October 26 enacted the long awaited Encryption Law (密码法）, which will come into effect on January 1, 2020. The official text of the law can be found here and an English language summary can be found here: The Law is another piece of the comprehensive cybersecurity system China is … [Read more...]