Archive for the 'China Business' Category

Case study: “Lampholder - Taiwan Makers Ride on the Back of China Capacity”

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

CENS has a nice case study of Taiwanese producers of lampholders who manufacture on the Mainland:
“As with manufacturers in many other industries, makers of lampholders, sockets and switches in Taiwan have all offshored production to mainland China to cut costs and ramp up production capacity. The strategy has proved successful, as most makers scramble to […]

Bigger meetings with Chinese business people in Taiwan now

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Until now it was not allowed to allow more than 30 business people to attend a business meeting in Taiwan. This is going to change, not only because foreign companies demanded a change of the rules, according to The China Post:
“Taiwan is set to ease restrictions on visits from Chinese business travelers and is confident […]

“Taiwan investment first”

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Taiwan’s president Chen Shuibian once more gave a speach about the business relation between Taiwan and China. And what was written was different from what was spoken, as the China Post reports:
“Taiwan First” and “Investing in Taiwan First” should be the basic mindset in the formulation of economic and trade policy toward China, President Chen […]

Taiwan’s and China’s WTO Towel Dispute

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

These towels seem to be itchy, as The China Post reports:
“Taiwan’s and China’s delegations to the World Trade Organization (WTO) have held their first round of negotiations on Taipei’s plan to impose safeguard measures against towel imports from China, sources said Thursday.
The talks mark the first between the two sides under the WTO framework since […]