East-West can assist with all phases of developing meaningful partnerships for your business. If our membership database has a prospective partner, you will find the contact information to help you get started. If language is a problem, we can provide the introduction and facilitate discussions. We can help you navigate through the legal and political challenges of doing business in China or the United States. Our partners and affiliations can help to break down barriers and make the process shorter. We can refer you to legal counsel who are experienced in developing international business contracts. Our goal is finding good partnership matches and facilitating them in such a way as to bring beneficial results to both businesses.
- Import- export relationships
- Distributorship arrangements
- Wholesale and retail outlets
- Sales representatives
- Joint ventures
- Joint development agreements
- Service center/call center operations
- Business startup
- Facility construction
Examples of partnership development:
Assisting a Chinese manufacturer of household goods with expanded retail outlets within the United States and developing opportunities to expand to production to the U.S.
Assisting a U.S. manufacturer of environmental control systems in working with Chinese government and engineers to design, build and install waste water treatment facilities in China.
Assisting a U.S. distributor of oil field consumable products to develop a closer relationship with a Chinese manufacturer of drill bits in order to provide a faster and more economical supply chain to provide high-quality, low-cost products in a timely manner.
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