Trade Fairs in China - Steps to Protect Your IPR
Trade fairs are an excellent opportunity for a business to showcase their new products and scout out business partners for manufacturing, promotion, and distribution. Unfortunately, in China these exhibitions are a common prowling ground for infringers, so it is of utmost importance to ensure all intellectual property...
Agritech companies debut at the World Dairy Expo & ...
13 June 2014 – Seven companies joined New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) at the 12th World Dairy Expo and Summit in Xi'an, China, over the weekend. The World Dairy Expo and Summit is the premier annual event for China’s dairy industry, attracting thousands of visitors from across China and around the world...
Trade Mission North Asia
July 2014 ExportNZ & New Zealand Trade Enterprise will jointly lead a trade delegation to visit Taipei, Hong Kong (with an option to visit Macao). This is a good opportunity for NZ businesses to explore the Hong Kong market further and the first opportunity to leverage the relatively new ANZTEC agreement with...
China’s E-Commerce: New Zealand’s gateway to Chinese ...
By Ken Ma, Business Development Manager (Asia Pacific), Alibaba Group China’s business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce market continued to boom in 2013, rising 65 percent over the previous year to hit RMB 66.6 billion (NZ$12.4 billion) in value of goods transacted, according to recent iResearch data. China will...
Shanghai Free Trade Zone Allows Offshore RMB Borrowing
To further enhance financing support for cross-border investment and trade, the Shanghai office of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the mainland’s central bank, has allowed companies based in the Shanghai free trade zone (FTZ) to conduct offshore RMB borrowing. The Shanghai PBOC recently promulgated the...
NZCTA and Shanghai Entrepreneurs Association sign ...
NZCTA signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shanghai Entrepreneurs Association (SEA) at the Shanghai Yacht Club on 20 March. This is a fantastic opportunity for NZCTA to significantly deepen our relationships in China with a very proactive group of successful businessmen and women who are well networked and...
Chinese Business in New Zealand: Big changes coming in ...
By John Hannan, Partner, DLA Phillips Fox If you are a Chinese business operator setting up or running a business in New Zealand, beware of tough new changes in workplace health and safety law. It is also important you already provide for all current obligations in health and safety you have. Your obligations apply...
China Market Information Programme
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is offering dollar-for-dollar support for businesses undertaking research on the needs and preferences of the China visitor market. The China Market Information Programme (CMIP) aims to inform and stimulate product and service development that will enable tourism...
New China Toolkit website goes live for industry
A new website, the China Toolkit, is now available to help the New Zealand tourism sector deliver quality experiences to Chinese visitors. The Toolkit is an output of the China Market Review, released earlier this year by the Prime Minister and Tourism Minister John Key. It has been funded by the Ministry of Business,...
Attention Exporters: New CIQ Credit Management System
The purpose of this article is to share an update with New Zealand exporters on the new Commodity, Inspection and Quarantine (CIQ) Credit Management System so that you can then work with your Importer in China to enhance supply-chain performance at the Customs border. According to a recent PwC survey almost two-thirds of...
Translations of business contracts and why it’s so ...
By Josiah Beach New Zealand and China are signatories of a Free Trade Agreement (2008) which encourages trade between the countries via tariff concessions and working-holiday schemes for skilled workers. Many large New Zealand companies such as Fonterra and Fisher & Paykel have already invested heavily in China...
New Chinese requirements for imported infant formula products
On Friday, 6 December, the Ministry for Primary Industries issued formal advice to registered dairy exporters and dairy risk management programme operators about new Chinese requirements for imported infant formula products. This is available on the MPI Foodsafety website: here and here (NB. this second link is password...