2014年5月22日星期四

China : create a WFOE

Presentation of a 100% company major foreigner – WFOE

 Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE) is a company with capital foreigner. In China, the WFOE was originally designed to encourage the industrial activities sour to the export or in the advanced technology. However since China entered the World Trade Organization, these conditions were abandoned and the WFOE became more democratic.
From now on the WFOE is used from now on by service companies and of consulting, import export and company of software also.

The various typical of WFOE

There are many business sectors for the WFOE.
The list this below is often chosen by the investors:
·         Manufacturing WFOE
·         Consultancy (yet Service(Department)) WFOE
·         Trading WFOE or Foreign Invested Commercial Enterprise (FICE)

The advantages of the WFOE

The advantages of a WFOE included these advantages:
·         Independence and freedom of implementation of an international strategy without being dependent on a Chinese partner
·         Capacity has to manage officially all the business operations of the company and to charge it rmb
·         Protection intellectual of the knowledge and the technology
·         No need of license of Import / Export for its own products
·         Total control in its strategy of recruitment
·         More effective operations, management and future development.
·         The investors do not any more need to establish an office(desk) of representation during two years before creating a WFOE

Fields of activity of a WFOE

One of the most importing problems of a WFOE is the definition of its field of activity. The field of activity needs to be defined and the WFOE can only exercise the activity defined in its license of activity.
Every change of activity requires a change of the statuses. Inevitably, there is a negotiation with the authorities to accept a wider field of activity.
Generally the inclusive field of activity, investment consulting, international economic consulting, trade consulting, marketing information and consulting, corporate promotion consulting management, technology consulting, manufacturing, etc.


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