Publications for International Business & Trade

In the last three years, growth of foreign expats working in Shanghai has declined to only about 1/10 the average annual growth of the last twelve year. Businesses are leaving and expats are being replaced by low-cost local staff alternatives.

The current prolonged downturn of the Chinese economy is the worst experienced by any of today’s Chinese business managers.

When doing business overseas, people often become so entangled in the language and cultural differences, they forget about all of the fundamental business similarities. When it comes down to signing new distribution, for example, it is pretty much the same all over the world.

The United States is a party to a number of trade treaties with foreign countries. The E visa category was created to give effect to those treaties by providing reciprocal benefits to nationals of a treaty country. 

U.S. exporters may be able to reduce their U.S. effective tax rate by establishing an IC-DISC.