Recently added articles from The China Business Review:
Letter from the Editor
Mar 01, 2009; ... This year, the China Business Reviews (CBR) 35 th anniversary, we are looking back at the magazines first year. The March-April 1974 issue featured articles on Sino-Japanese cooperation, the Fourth Five- Year Plan (1971-75), dispute resolution, agriculture, and negotiating for bristles, as well ...
Employment
Mar 01, 2009; ... Prompted by slow economic growth, factory closures, and worker layoffs, the PRC government recently announced plans to assist job-seeking college graduates, a demographic that is expected to grow by more than 6 million in 2009. According to Xinhua News Agency, the government will offer job ...
Drought
Mar 01, 2009; ... Chinas worst drought in 50 years began in November 2008. The drought has affected 161 million mu (25.5 million acres) and more than 40 percent of Chinas wheat land, seriously damaging crops in eight northern and central provinces. In early February, the central government declared a ...
Trade
Mar 01, 2009; ... Total US-China trade reached $409.3 billion in 2008, up 5.8 percent over 2007. US exports to China hit $71.5 billion in 2008, up 9.5 percent from 2007, but significantly slower than in 2006 and 2007, when they grew 32.0 percent and 18.1 percent, respectively. Last year, imports rose 5.1 percent ...
Transportation
Mar 01, 2009; ... In January, China's domestic auto sales surpassed US auto sales for the first time. Despite a 14 percent drop in sales, China still sold 736,000 autos, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. Meanwhile, US sales plummeted 37 percent to 657,000 autos. China's auto market ...
Bilateral Relations
Mar 01, 2009; ... US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton capped her first overseas visit to Asia with meetings in Beijing on February 21-22. She met with senior PRC leaders, including PRC President Hu Jintao. During meetings, Clinton assured Chinas leadership of the importance of the bilateral relationship ...
China Tackles Economic Crisis with Fiscal Stimulus, Consumption Plans
Mar 01, 2009; ... As the global economic crisis has deepened, the PRC government has become increasingly concerned about the impact of the crisis on Chinas economy and has launched various efforts in response. Central stimulus plan The centerpiece of Chinas response is the massive ?4 trillion ...
USCBC Bulletin
Mar 01, 2009; ... Event Wrap Up WASHINGTON January Potential Trade Remedies: How Companies Can Respond Co-sponsored with the Emergency Committee for American Trade and the Retail Industry Leaders Association, this briefing featured Gary Horlick, former head of the US Department of ...
Transitions
Mar 01, 2009; ... The year of the ox brings several transitions that will affect US business in China. One is the change of administration in the United States, which could bring revisions to trade policy for China, though it is still too early to tell. Another is the acceleration of the shift of Chinas economy ...
Tackling Intellectual Property Infringement in China
Mar 01, 2009; ... Companies can use several official channels to deal with intellectual property rights violations Companies face a challenging, rapidly evolving intellectual property rights (IPR) landscape in China. PRC officials are increasingly cog- nizant of the importance of IPR protection to an ...
Mark Cohen on Intellectual Property
Mar 01, 2009; ... China's IP legal framework has grown more sophisticated, but companies must still aggressively register and protect their IP Mark Cohen is of counsel at Jones Day in Beijing and was senior intellectual property (IP) attaché at the US Embassy in Beijing from 2004 to 2008. He recently ...
A New Era of Intellectual Property Rights Licensing
Mar 01, 2009; ... Multinationals should be aware of licensing pitfalls and diminished bargaining power Despite China's intention to balance domes- tic industry growth and foreign investment priorities through its recently enacted Antimonopoly Law (AML), many multina- tional corporations (MNCs) believe ...
Changes to China's Patent Law and Practice
Mar 01, 2009; ... The revised Patent Law brings the country closer to international standards but leaves room for further improvement The National People's Congress Standing Committee in late December 2008 approved amendments to China's Patent Law for the third time since enacting the law in 1985. Set to ...
Luxury Goods: Still Strong Sellers
Mar 01, 2009; ... China's luxury goods market may escape the worst of the global economic crisis As the effects of the economic crisis ripple across the global economy and demand for expensive products plummets, luxury brands face gloomy prospects in North America and Europe. Except in China, consumer ...
Converting the Downturn to Advantage
Mar 01, 2009; ... In tough times, the best strategy is to push forward For the past five years, many international companies have experienced rapid growth in market share and profits in China and have generated savings by improving supply chain effectiveness and efficiency but at the end of 2008, when the ...
China's Special Tax Adjustment Regulations: An Action Plan
Mar 01, 2009; ... Chinas new transfer pricing regime raises documentation costs but presents opportunities for cost sharing More than 50 percent of the world's trade involves transfer pricing-the pricing of transactions that occur between subsidiaries of the same group. Transfer pricing can also mask what ...
Ramping Up Customs Compliance Reviews
Mar 01, 2009; ... Companies must create strong compliance teams and comprehensive checklists to stay on the right side of the law During the past few years, little has been more bewildering, frustrating, and costly for companies than new government requirements for compliance in almost every area of ...