10 Years: 9 inside looks at the China legal system

A comprehensive tutorial designed to help professional buyers improve their strategic sourcing and supply chain management

China Sourcing Academy (CSA) lecturer Mike Bellamy has been blogging for a decade. CSA selected the best 100+ posts (covering 18 different sub-topics) from his various blogs for their relevance to international buyers doing business with China. Each week we pick a topic and offer the best post about that topic pulled from Mike’s 100+ posts.

In other words, we hope to bring you the best of the best from the past decade of blogs!

A practical guide for import/export

Sub topics to be covered in the series: General Sourcing, Scams, Safe Payment Practices, VAT, Exclusivity & Distributor Agreements, Contracts & Legal Issues, Intellectual Property, Supplier Validation/ Due Diligence/ RFQ, Logistics, Quality Assurance, Project Management/ Vendor Coordination/ Communications, Ethics, Middlemen/Agents/ Consultants/Trading Companies/ Brokers, Business Formation, Small Order Issues, Labor Rates, Engineering, Compliance

This week’s topic/ selected blog posts:

Contracts & Legal Issues

How can I protect the quality of my product with a contract?

Are Bilingual Contracts Necessary?

7 items you probably forgot to put in your contract with the factory.

Does the NDA protect me? Will my ideas be stolen?

Why your Chinese supplier(s) break the terms of your Purchase Order (PO)

Learn from this foreigner buyer’s experience with Chinese courts

Resolving a dispute: Demand letters and legal options

Chinese-Foreign Lawsuits on the rise in China

What to expect from the courts when things go bad