Are Contracts Really Enforceable in China?
As lawyers, we spend a lot of time fielding good, bad, weird,
interesting, deep, superficial, and all types of other questions
from people. We're generally expected to be oracle-level
wizards, a lot like people are treating AI now. In this series,
we'll share some of these questions that people ask us, along
with our answers. For longtime China Law Blog readers, this
"Quick Question" reboot will feel familiar.
Trading Purchase Orders for a Real China Contract
Question. We have been buying from various Chinese
manufacturers for many years. We have been using two page purchase
orders. They are basically the general product information on the
front side and about 15 short sentences on the back side that
encapsulate the ways we have been burned in the past. So we are
really making our own contract on the back side slowly over time. I
think we are finally at the point where we need a real China
contract, but will that
