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Getting Shut Down In China. What Are The Odds?
As I mentioned previously, I expect to be writing a number of posts arising from issues that were discussed at the recent Doing Business in China seminar I co-moderated last week. At lunch, one of the attendees told me that they had been told by a higher up at a big U.S. retailer that they would not be going into China because they did not trust the government not to shut them down.
I pooh-poohed that, saying that the more likely reason was because this retailer knew that it would have no particular advantage in China and that it would be better off expanding elsewhere. I then thought for a moment and added that I was not aware of a single foreign company that had been shut down in China when it was operating legally. That evening I asked a number of the other speakers whether they were aware of an instance where the Chinese government had shut down a foreign company that had been operating legally in China and they too were not. The odds of getting shut down in China are minimal if you are operating legally there.
Yes, China is and has been for some time stepping up its shut-downs of companies that are not operating legally there, but I just am not aware of an instance where it has done so to a foreign company that is abiding by its laws.
Are you?
We will be discussing the practical aspects of Chinese law and how it impacts business there. We will be telling you what works and what does not and what you as a businessperson can do to use the law to your advantage. Our aim is to assist businesses already in China or planning to go into China, not to break new ground in legal theory or policy.
2012-12-19 23:42:07
Source: http://www.chinalawblog.com/2012/12/getting-shut-down-in-china.html
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