Safety and Compliance

Where did the product come from?

A certification scheme won't work – data should move through the supply chain as efficiently as the goods themselves How did the everyday things that we buy get here, and from where? It seems a simple enough question and yet for the vast majority of things we buy it is completely unanswerable. The label may say "made in China", but normally that's just where the bits and pieces were put together. So where do the bits come from, and how do we find out? Why should we care? The total val...

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Supply Chain Key to Success in China

It’s no secret that China’s domestic consumption is rising rapidly. Chinese consumers are buying more of everything (from apparel and white goods to luxury items and home ware) and as they buy more, from more channels, including online, at single brand stores and from large specialty chains, domestic and foreign owned companies have to re-asses their supply chain infrastructure in China for both selling and making goods. Supply Chain in China was once an afterthought or was only thought o...

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12 key sales trends for 2014

The unprecedented changes we are experiencing as a result of the digital revolution and commoditisation of products, services, quality and even pricing, mean we can no longer manage sales by processes, protocols or numbers alone – selling has become a thinking person’s game. Sales operations are complex systems that involve many variables making it almost impossible to predict outcomes. Today, with rampant change, that unpredictability has increased in pace and impact. To have a highl...

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Things To Know About The TPP

The three-year-old Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, now involving 12 nations, are aimed at lowering trade barriers across a wide range of sectors in 12 Pacific Rim counties that would stretch from U.S. to New Zealand and from Japan to Chile. TPP, arguably the most important trade agreement in a generation, emerged following nearly a decade of disappointment in trade talks. The World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Round of talks first collapsed in 2003 and effectively died with th...

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4 key elements that will transform B2B

2014 will be the "Year of E-Engagement" for B2B Commerce, Driven by Explosive Growth of Social, Mobile and Cloud. Use of Business Commerce Networks, E-Invoicing, E-Payment Solutions will Rapidly Rise as Companies Seek Better Cash Flow. 1. 2014 Will Be The Year Of ‘E-Everything’ In today’s real-time social, mobile and cloud-based environment, business users are demanding access to information and the ability to process tasks in a matter of seconds or minutes. Finance and procureme...

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Top 10 problems in International Trade

The most common issues you can face doing international trade: 1. Distance: Due to long distance between different countries, it is difficult to establish quick and close trade contacts between traders. Buyers and sellers rarely meet one another and personal contact is rarely possible. There is a great time lag between placement of order and receipt of goods from foreign countries. Distance creates higher costs of transportation and greater risks. 2. Different languages: Different lang...

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Where China Offer Uncensored Internet

By James Pomfret and Yimou Lee of Reuters ddddd SHENZHEN/HONGKONG — A planned economic zone in southern China will allow full internet freedom, similar to what will be allowed in a proposed free trade zone in Shanghai, a senior official behind the project said on Thursday.   fffff China tightly controls the internet through a so-called Great Firewall, routinely deleting online postings and blocking access to websites it deems politically sensitive or inappropriate such as Facebook...

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Counterfeits, an Urgent Issue in China!

Counterfeit goods from China account for almost 2% of world trade, equaling $250 billion per year, the latest research from the United Nations Office on Drug and Crimes (UNODC) shows.   Since the 1978 Economic Reform and Openness strategy, Chinahas gradually grown to the main source for pirated goods coming into the United States and the European Union. Some researchers have found that around 60% to 70% of the worldwide pirated and faked products come from mainland China.   ...

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Protection against Online Thieves!

What CISAA does? Based in Shenzhen, CISAA provides Intellectual Property Investigation Services throughout. CISAA have specialized in Anti-counterfeit Investigation for a long time. We continue to take successfully and positive action against organisations involved in the theft or misuse of Intellectual Property throughout Hong Kong and the. Many of our cases have been coordinated against highly organised crime syndicates. Our Internet Countermeasures program (ICMS) provides online investigati...

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Business Never Stops

If you have already done business with China, you know that it is not easy everyday... Sometimes, it would look like even the government leagues against your business. That’s the problem encountered by many companies when facing “The Great Firewall”. But since several years, companies and individuals have been starting to use VPNs (virtual private network) in order to avoid this restriction, and to be able to access all of the services and media the internet can offer.   Chinese...

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