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How WFOE Starts Business in China

The Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE or WOFE) is a Limited liability company wholly owned by the foreign investor(s). In China, WFOEs were originally conceived for encouraged manufacturing activities that were either export orientated or introduced advanced technology. However, after China's entered the WTO, these conditions were gradually abolished and the WFOE is increasingly being used for service providers such as a variety of consulting and management services, software development and...

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What Does 2012 Hold in Supply Chain?

Procurement, in the year 2011, witnessed some of the major challenges, especially from a supply chain perspective. Procurement professionals around the globe were seen fighting supply disruptions emerging out of the adverse events that occurred in 2011 which not only resulted in production losses but also negatively impacted company bottom lines. Based on the impact of these threats, various studies are forecasting a loss of €280 billion for the year 2012.   Effectively managing sup...

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Direct Use of Yuan and Yen

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told visiting Japanese Prime Minster Yoshihiko Noda that China is willing to work with Japan in promoting the direct use of their respective currencies in bilateral trade.   China's central bank announced shortly after the Wen-Noda talks to encourage the direct use of Chinese currency RMB, or the yuan, and Japanese yen in cross-border transactions between China and Japan.   The agreement is expected to give the Chinese yuan a more powerful role in...

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RMB Kick offs against Aussie Dollar

The Chinese local currency renminbi (RMB) kicked off trading against the Australian dollar and the Canadian dollar in the country’s onshore market on Monday. The two new foreign currencies have become the latest additions to the seven other foreign currencies that are currently being traded directly against the RMB.   The RMB opened at 6.1266 against the Canadian dollar on the first day of trading, after the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) fixed the RMB/Canadian dollar’s mid-point...

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China Being EU’s Top Trade Partner

Trade between China and the European Union (EU) totaled 35.6 billion euros ($49.4 billion) in July, allowing China to overtake the United States as the EU's largest trade partner, the Ministry of Commerce said, citing the latest statistics from Eurostat.   The overall value of China-EU trade in July exceeded that of the EU and the United States by 800 million euros, accounting for 13.4 percent of the region's total imports and exports, according to data released by the EU's statistics...

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China: ASEAN Prime Trade Partners

Indonesian exporters and importers regarded China and ASEAN countries as their prime business partners within the next six months, a report released by Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) said on Wednesday.   The report that was yielded from the results of a bank's Trade Confidence Index (CTI) survey said that Germany was also considered as a potential trading partner with positive trade growth prospect.   The report also said that China, Singapore, Japan, the Uni...

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