Business people and lawyers have often complained of the vagueness and impracticalities of China's legal rules regulating the filing of charges over chattels. With the advent of the New Methods for Registration of Charges of Personal Properties, much light is shed and many problems removed; yet ambiguities still abide around several key issues.
Features & Analyses
- January 31, 2008
Since the passage of the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law last March, local companies and foreign-invested enterprises alike have eagerly awaited the implementing regulations that would reveal the details of how the law would be put into practice. In order to enhance the operability of the law, these regulations give specific definitions, criteria for tax-liability reductions and concessions, and other critical details.
January 31, 2008As the second largest emitter of greenhouse gas in the world after the United States, the PRC is under great pressure and scrutiny from other countries, and has dedicated a great deal of resources and legislation effort in order to lower its emissions. Can the draft Energy Law successfully turn China into an energy-efficient country?
January 31, 2008As the second largest emitter of greenhouse gas in the world after the United States, the PRC is under great pressure and scrutiny from other countries, and has dedicated a great deal of resources and legislation effort in order to lower its emissions. Can the draft Energy Law successfully turn China into an energy-efficient country?
January 31, 2008Crisis of Confidence in Chinese Food Exports: Causes, Effects, and a Solution for Customer Assurance
Given the recent tainted food imports report in the US, Chinese food exporters are advised to take concrete steps to assure consumer safety.
November 30, 2007Crisis of Confidence in Chinese Food Exports: Causes, Effects, and a Solution for Customer Assurance
Given the recent tainted food imports report in the US, Chinese food exporters are advised to take concrete steps to assure consumer safety.
November 30, 2007The Provisions further regulates the regime over the increasingly popular construction leasehold granting through bidding, auction or listing.
November 30, 2007The new Guidelines standardize practices in China's nascent syndicated loan market. Updated areas include expanding the role of the agent, and making changes to the roles of the agent, lenders and borrower.
November 30, 2007Mapping the general process of complex commercial litigation in the US, this article highlights some aspects that may come as an overwhelming shock to Chinese companies.
November 30, 2007The new guidance catalogue has re-defined the industries for foreign investment. FIE regulations are more closely aligned with the PRC government's evolving national economic development policy.
November 30, 2007
