How To Buy Product From China Without Losing Your Shirt

Despite the media having proclaimed China dead for product outsourcing, I seem to be getting many new clients doing exactly that. Interestingly, many of these new clients have been outsourcing for years from China and they are contacting us now because they want to tighten up their relationships with existing supplier or because they are ready to move on to a new one.

Having gone through my “buying product in China” spiel so often of late, I figured I might as well just put it into a blog post.

I tell them that there are two things we as China lawyers can do to assist them: one, draft an OEM Agreement that will help protect them from problems with their Chinese supplier(s) and two, make sure they have properly registered their IP so as to protect them from everyone else.