Doing business in China

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Tianjin authorities meeting held with Officer Guo, a smart and tidy young man in his mid thirties who had a big file of research which they had assembled on our Morgan cars. We encountered a couple of issues: - Customs officers were of the impression that our HK company is a subsidiary of MMC. In Ti...
07.05.13 03:47 PM - Comment(s)
IMG_0055 The weeks move by and we are slowly, inexorably passing the hurdles placed before us to import and sell the Morgan cars. My concern as the weeks pass by runs to the costs of inactivity, (storage, rental, salaries etc) but also to the cars aging and the impact that will make on the customers. W...
19.04.13 02:54 PM - Comment(s)
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The customs officers in Tianjin Economic Development Area, TEDA,  accepted our documents today: - amounting to some 100 pages of documentations. Valiantly all copied and chopped by Erika.
  • 5 photos per car
  • Specifications in Chinese (each CofC translated)
  • Owner identity – each low vol car import...
25.03.13 02:36 PM - Comment(s)
  Morgan car import to China Morgan car import to China The process of importing Morgan cars has now begun in earnest. On the 11th March the 6 Morgan cars, which comprise the first commercial consignment, docked in Tianjin after some 42 days at sea. On 19th March Erika and I traveled to Tianjin to drive the cars out of...
11.03.13 11:55 AM - Comment(s)
As we near the arrival of the 6 cars in China, the necessary legal and financial pieces of the puzzle are coming together to make a picture of Morgan car business in China as a fully legal and commercial enterprise. Little did I know that we had been shadowing the cars while on vacation in Singapore...
21.02.13 11:35 AM - Comment(s)