NZCTA Commentary: Life in the Dragon Yet!
A recent briefing NZCTA received from its ex officio Government colleagues contained the classic mix of good news / bad news. First, because NZCTA always sees the glass half full, the good news. The China promotional effort will continue despite public service budget cuts and the international economic...
Export Opinion: Transfer Pricing Developments in China
Ernst & Young's China Business Group brings us up to speed on the latest developments in the world of Transfer Pricing. A major change in China’s transfer pricing regime occurred last month, albeit with much less fanfare than recent Chinese New Year celebrations. Transfer pricing is an area of international...
NZCTA Commentary - Feb '09
NZCTA has no stance on capital punishment – it’s official! The melamine scandal in China has just brought its inevitable result and sentences have been passed. The outcome is probably of little surprise to China watchers. In a way, we suppose, the clamour in New Zealand was of little surprise too.Those on...
Meet Richard Fyers
In this issue of China Now we introduce you to one of the NZCTA's longstanding Executive Committee members, Richard Fyers of Fyers Joyce. Fyers Joyce is a business law firm based in Auckland. Its practice areas include all commercial, financial and regulatory issues that affect businesses especially those operating...
Top Ten Business Trends in China for 2009
The Li & Fung Research Centre, a division of the Li & Fung Group, share their expert analysis of the year ahead in China; we focus on the first trend and provide you with links for further reading. Summary of the "Ten Highlights of China's Commerical Sector in 2009" 2009 will be a very...
Bloomberg Analysis: China's GDP Growth
Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- China's economy expanded at the slowest pace in seven years as the global recession dragged down exports, increasing pressure for more government spending and lower interest rates to buoy growth. Gross domestic product grew 6.8 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, after a 9 percent...
China: a reservoir of solvency and growth
In this extract from China Watch, David Mahon, Managing Director of Mahon China Investment Management, addresses the question of how resilient the Chinese economy will be in the midst of the global financial crisis. At the beginning of this year, concerned by steep inflation of food and property prices, the...
Spotlight on China: Cross border transactions in emerging ...
Even with the global slow down China's escalating consumer demand and economic growth is still providing opportunities. For the 2007 year end, most markets were already slowing, China announced deals totalling US$122.5 billion, an increase of 65.3% on the previous year, heading off the other emerging markets of India and...
Export Opinion: Certificates of Origin
To gain the benefits negotiated within the FTA, an authenticated Certificate of Origin is now required as explained by Cameron Gordon, of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, one of the three agencies currently authorised by NZ Customs to authenticate Certificates of Origin. New Zealand’s historic Free Trade...
NZCTA Commentary: Groser's way forward for NZ & China
Sometime back in August, we invited then Opposition spokesman for Trade, Tim Groser to be guest speaker at our AGM on 12th November. Both he and we knew the election would be about that time, so we had no idea in what capacity he would be speaking. Pleasingly and maybe bravely, Mr Groser accepted the invitation. But we...
Managing Your China Business During a Global Downturn
China Now welcomes Dezan Shira & Associates as contributors. In this article from the November issue of China Briefing News they evaluate the potential impact of the global financial crisis on businesses operating in China. Much has occurred over the past few weeks, with stock markets plunging, banks in crisis and...
NZCTA Forges Ahead in Another Year of Progress
NZCTA Chairman, Stuart Ferguson, will be reporting on another successful and active year at the Association’s AGM in Auckland on 12th November. "We must be very happy with the overall result", he said. "The organisation is in good health financially , and membership is still gaining solid...