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No business without contracts

Contracts are the bases of all business transactions. Without them, and their trustworthy enforcement, trade would grind to a halt

Issue: June 2009

Keywords (click to search): [contract] [investment] [PRC Contract Law] [Supreme People's Court] [editorial]

Contracts are the basis of all business transactions. Without them, and their trustworthy enforcement, trade would grind to a halt. Contracts can be reliably enforced in China, as long as they are constructed properly and follow the letter of the Contract Law. But although that Law is relatively comprehensive and well-structured, it’s old – it was last updated in 1999 – and in desperate need of revisiting. That’s why the recent opinion issued by the country’s...

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