Establishing Foreign Invested Commercial Enterprises to handle Product Distribution in China

by Chris Devonshire-Ellis, Senior Partner, Dezan Shira & Associates

The new FICE regulations have been in existence for some time now, and permit foreign companies to distribute products throughout China. Application processes for international companies considering this can be divided into two separate groups. 1) Companies with existing China operations who now wish to add distribution of non-China manufactured products to their Chinese scope of business. 2) New to China companies

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This article included in China Briefing Magazine

November 2005: Establishing FICE and distributing Products in China

Other articles in this issue: Total Investment Capital & Registered Capital Allocations in China by Chris Devonshire-Ellis, Senior Partner, Dezan Shira & Associates Consolidated Measures on Advance Recovery of Investment by Sabrina Zhang, North China Regional Partner, Dezan Shira & Associates Pudong's new five year economic development plan by Lulu Zhang, Shanghai Regional Partner, Dezan Shira & Associates Social security payments for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwanese residents working in the Mainland by Alberto Vettoretti, South China Regional Partner, Dezan Shira & Associates