Category Archives: Legal

Supplier Code of Conduct A Supplier Code of Conduct is essential in today’s world. In the court of public opinion, companies risk the loss of public trust and potentially irreversible damage to their reputations. Any acts or behaviours of a company’s supplier is seen by its customers as a breach of trust or fairness. In […]

Brexit Consequences – Can the UK really disconnect from Europe? Brexit Consequences for the UK – When EU President Donald Tusk said in a February 2019 speech, “a special place in hell waits for those who promoted Brexit without a sketch of a plan on how to carry it through”, he was portraying the EU’s […]

China Trade Mark Service – Intellectual Property Protection China Trademark – Intellectual property rights infringement is common in China.  Registering your intellectual property and Trademark is essential.  The registration process for a trademark application in China can take up to 18 months. Products can only be protected once the application process has been completed.  Companies […]

Hong Kong – Overview Selling to Hong Kong is very easy as it has a duty free port and it can serve as an excellent location for conducting trade into China and Asia. Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. However is it is not considered to be part of China in a […]

    China Employee Death update. Every year there are in excess of 600,000 “work related” deaths in China but do you know that your company can still be liable for an employee death up to 48 hours after completion of work! In the awful event that an employee suffers a work related death, the […]

Protect Food Sold to China. China’s Food imports are rising. So have you thought of the likelihood that the food products you sell in China could be tampered with or even copied? Food fraud is a very real threat in China. China’s food track record Food scandals are commonplace in China.  It has an awful […]

                      India’s decision not to renew an investment treaty with the Netherlands has sounded warning bells to the European Union that this will be the start of a process of India allowing many bilateral Investment protection deals with other European countries to expire. India has […]

Services are an increasingly important in the global economy and a central part of the economy of every EU country.  The EU is the world’s largest exporter of services with tens of millions of jobs throughout Europe in the services sector.  Opening up markets for services will mean more growth and jobs. The Trade in […]

  The high level team dealing with a potential US-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has cleared the way for formal negotiations to begin. Indeed the European Union’s incoming trade chief is vowing to pursue an ambitious free trade agreement with the United States. The shared ambition would be to progressively move to a more integrated […]

Today the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has officially blocked the plans of an alliance between some of the major shipping lines.  citing the potentially negative impact such a partnership would have on other carriers The Shipping lines Maersk, MSC & CMA had been planning an Alliance to begin in the later part of 2014. The […]