International Law

China Outsourcing Tips.

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

Very good post over at the Foreign Entrepreneurs in China blog on how to handle your China outsourcing arrangements. The post is entitled, "12 Tips for Negotiating and Dealing with your Suppliers in China," and it imparts good, solid, common sense information. Here are my five favorite tips:

1. Know who it is at the company who makes the decisions and make sure you are dealing with that person.

2. "Make them recap the agreements, do not assume they understood just because you feel you were clear enough"

3. Assume there will be delays.

4. Once you build the business relationship, payment terms get easier.

5. "Do not get obsessed with the cheapest deal"

Go here for the other seven and for a bit more by way of explanation.

Full post as published by China Law Blog on May 30, 2010 (boomark / email).