L'innovation est un mot que nous entendons beaucoup plus de en Chine de nos jours. Le consensus est que comme fabrication les coûts en Chine continuent à monter et complexité de chaîne d'approvisionnements augmente, ainsi les compagnies doivent innover pour économiser l'argent et pour augmenter l'efficacité.

Dans cette histoire nous jetons un coup d'oeil plus profond dans ce que quelques compagnies et individus en Chine, étrangère et Chinois font pour mener la manière en service, gestion de fournisseur, IL exécution, comme l'efficacité coûtée et de processus. Ces compagnies et individus étaient tous les gagnants des récompenses au sommet du novembre 2007 CHaINA.

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Par Nannette Ripmeester

Bien que les temps modernes soient hauts contagieux rapidement dans les villes de la Chine, l'arrangement les racines de cette culture antique et complexe est essentiel en faire des affaires là. Dans la partie II de `faisant des affaires dans prises de la Chine des' Nannette Ripmeester un regard plus étroit à certaines des nuances culturelles vos expats dans le besoin de la Chine de se rendre compte de.

Quand Dutch Jenny van Chine visitée Baden pendant des vacances de son endroit d'expat dans Taiwan elle a été frappé par les développements fascinants dans le pays. “When you are out of Shanghai for one week, a new building or highway might have popped up in front of your window when you return,” she says.

Although modern times are catching up quickly within the cities of China, “understanding their history is essential to comprehend the Chinese and the way they respond to things.” says van Baden, who works for ASML in Shanghai. Read the rest of “Successful business in China (part II)” or post a comment

The continued pervasiveness of counterfeiting in China is not only a problem of law, but also one of enforcement. While China’s laws and regulations conform to the agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) and other widely accepted international principles, certain parts of China’s protection mechanism have proven ineffective. Common examples are the high standards for criminal liability of counterfeiters, the high burden of evidence to prove bad faith registrations, and the difficulty to prove damages in civil proceedings…

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Tax and regulatory issues

By Nick Debnam & George Svinos, KPMG

The process of importing, distributing and selling luxury goods in China raises further challenges for companies, including a number of difficult questions regarding tax treatment, customs duty, logistics and the transfer of intellectual property.

Customs duty, import VAT and consumption tax can all be charged on luxury goods imported into China. The ability of brands to mark up their goods at dramatic premiums can also prove difficult to explain to tax authorities when the time comes to file income tax returns. Companies producing or trading luxury items need to understand how to avoid unnecessary or overlapping burden of tax and other duties. For example, VAT and business tax should in theory be mutually exclusive, since both are turnover taxes. Read the rest of “Luxury Brands in China: Part V” or post a comment

Having a meaningful footprint in China has become a strategic imperative for multinational companies from around the world. The attraction is China’s seemingly insatiable demand for products, services, capital and technology. George D. Martin, partner and chair of the Faegre & Benson China Practice, sees the current acquisition boom in China as the logical culmination of foreign investment trends that he first observed when practicing in Shanghai in the mid-1990s. Martin expects this M&A trend to continue. But in the years to come, he advises, it won’t be just foreign companies on the buy-side of cross-border M&A deals involving China.

China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 opened new sectors to foreign investment and eliminated many restrictions on structuring those investments. As a result, joint ventures that were in vogue among early China investors waned. Read the rest of “Dealmaking in China: Getting In on the Action” or post a comment