Baker Donelson (JD Supra China)

A. What is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement - The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement is a mega free trade agreement signed on November 15, 2020 by 15 Asia-Pacific countries, including Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. The 15...

On October 17, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China adopted the Export Control Law of the People's Republic of China (Export Control Law). The new law becomes effective on December 1, 2020. The Export Control Law comprises 5 chapters and 49 articles. It creates a comprehensive and unified export control regime that regulates the export of

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to have significant impacts globally, companies face issues that will affect their supply chains, cybersecurity, and workforce.

A new coronavirus is causing an outbreak of respiratory illness that began in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The outbreak began in early December 2019 and continues to spread in China and beyond.

On March 15, 2019, the Chinese National People's Congress (China's legislative body) passed the new China Foreign Investment Law. The new law, a version of which was first released for comment in 2015, is intended to level the playing field between Chinese companies and foreign companies doing business in China by affording foreign companies the same treatment provided to domestic Chinese...

In 2013, China announced its plan to fund and construct a global transportation and infrastructure network known as the Belt and Road Initiative (“BRI”).

July 6, 2018 will be remembered as China sanctions day. And I hope it is the last China sanctions day although many believe the war has just begun.

On November 7, 2016, the Chinese government ratified a new cybersecurity law that provides a legal basis for a wide range of matters including personal privacy, electronic communication, requirements on technology companies operating in China, data-localization and sanctions for violations of the law. The new law goes into effect on June 1, 2017. While this leaves relatively little time for the...

American companies doing business with Chinese companies in China are often concerned about the credibility, neutrality and quality of the arbitration institutions in China. As a result, American companies generally try to avoid arbitration in China and, instead, try to persuade the Chinese party to agree to what they believe is a more neutral jurisdiction, like Hong Kong or Singapore.

Last Friday, China’s 15-month-long bribery investigation into British multinational pharmaceutical GlaksoSmithKline (GSK) ended after a one-day trial in which the court found GSK’s local subsidiary guilty of bribing doctors and hospitals and fined the company $490 million. The penalty – the largest ever imposed by a Chinese court – included suspended prison sentences for four Chinese GSK managers

The Chinese economy has changed dramatically in the past two, five, and even 20 years, but its intellectual property (IP) laws have only very recently developed to somewhat better deal with the new reality. The new Chinese environment, and the growing availability of Chinese laws to protect IP, are of particular interest to Western companies only now contemplating selling or manufacturing in...