NZCTA: We need you!
We need you! Or your China business questions to be more precise. NZCTA is a network of active and experience China business people and consultants, both in New Zealand and on the ground in China. Tap into this network by sending your Legal, Strategy, Marketing, Sourcing or Exporting question to us today. We'll...
Law school: Practical advice for protecting your NZ brand ...
In China, good brand protection is vital for business protection. If you use your brand in China without registering it as a trade mark somebody else might use your brand with relative impunity. Worse, they could register it and potentially prevent you continuing to use your own brand. They could export product under the...
Catch 22: IP protection in China vs. boosting economic growth
Jordan Calinoff & Hayleigh Davies of the Shanghai Business Review explain why the Chinese government finds itself walking a tightrope between IP enforcement and boosting its domestic economy. BRAND BEIJING OLYMPICS: the must-have items of Summer 2008. From Shanghai hipsters to rural farmers, everyone wanted a t-shirt,...
Tax toolkit: New Zealand-China tax update
The tax status of New Zealand companies investing offshore is about to be turned upside down following the recent changes to the CFC rules. The CFC rules are not those nasty things that impact on our environment but are the controlled foreign company rules. Under the previous rules New Zealand tax residents were taxed in...
From the Edge: Hand on Till
From the Edge is the collected memories and experiences of an old China hand and will run in an irregular series of articles on www.China-Briefing.com over the next couple of months. By I.B. Bogard Nov. 10 – Due diligence. These were the two most important words that I was advised to use about the China business...
NZCTA Commentary: Shanghai Expo 2010 as a catalyst for ...
World Expos like the Olympic Games strive to outdo their predecessors in scale and opulence and just as Beijing set a new benchmark for the Olympics last year, so we’re quite sure Shanghai will next year for Expo. In the midst of the FTA negotiations, the Government two years ago committed us to its biggest effort...
China relations different across the Tasman
It has been interesting observing New Zealand’s relationship with China developing differently to that of Australia’s. The Rio Tinto saga and the fall-out over Uigur activist Rebiya Kadeer’s recent visit to Australia has made it absolutely clear that Australia’s relationship with China is anything but...
Investing in Chinese real estate
This article should remove some of the mystery about investing in Chinese real estate and should give you a basic understanding of how it can be accomplished. Many investors have found China to be a very rewarding place to invest and have profited greatly from their investments. Others have gone home with financial losses...
China's training and education market
In this month's issue of China Now, JLJ Group presents an authoritative overview of the education and training market in China. The combination of the world economic crisis and China’s unprecedented economic growth has created unique opportunities in China’s education and training industry. As competition in...
NZCTA Commentary: Making it in China by being smarter
“The last 200 years were an aberration...the Chinese were selling silk to Cleopatra!” So commenced a highly detailed, not to say, trenchant assessment of China as a world player and as an export market by former Prime Minister Rt Hon Dame Jenny Shipley. She set the pace and indeed a benchmark at the recent...
China: the view from Ground Zero
NZCTA Executive Committee member and entrepreneur / consultant, Chris Lipscombe, takes China Now readers on a guided tour of his journey to found Ground Zero, a New Zealand consulting company with China-business expertise. Back in 2000, when I chose the name Ground Zero for my consulting company, the phrase was a...
The right tools for the job in China
NZCTA Trade Awards' 2009 Supreme Winners, Teknatool International take some time out of their busy export schedule to talk to China Now about the tools they employ to navigate the challenges and sieze the opportunities when doing business with China. About Teknatool Teknatool International manufactures high end...