China's legal & business differences

摘要

I spoke with a US company that was seeking to get its tooling back from its former China manufacturer. This company's domestic US lawyer had drafted a manufacturing contract with the China producer that was completely silent regarding ownership of the tooling/molds. When the US company started getting bad product from its China manufacturer, the US company requested the supplier to return the tooling/molds. The China manufacturer claimed to own the tooling/molds. The US company claimed that was not possible because it had the tooling/molds made by someone else and it had proof of payments that would show this.