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China has recently opened up to private equity firms, as foreign firms have finally been allowed to raise yuan-denominated funds.

Foreign firms are increasingly allowed to participate as investors in the ownership as well as the management of these projects.

After trials with several local institutions, the government is now opening the door to a few foreign firms.

He said the lending to foreign firms was especially striking and demanded 'an extensive look. '

There has been a stampede of foreign firms into the Mainland China as a sequel to market liberalization within the WTO framework.

Foreign firms are upbeat that this will translate into healthy growth prospects and are keen to get a foothold.

Experienced foreign firms recognize this, and they're prepared to exchange a great deal of cultural and economic data.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , UBS AG and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets are the only foreign firms that have underwritten local share sales.

Yusuf ousted Ali Mohamed Gedi as prime minister after a rift opened up between them over oil-exploration contracts with foreign firms.

Foreign firms used to selling large amounts of goods to the United States felt a new kind of pressure.

Much of it was raised from foreign firms which British taxpayers would never have to bail out.

British companies could perform some of the work, but foreign firms may be needed to carry out more highly skilled tasks.

It also shows how the Japanese have realised that such foreign firms can be useful partners as well as deadly rivals.

Hitherto , Malaysian companies have had a remarkable record of picking duds when they buy foreign firms.

The company had once been among the premier foreign firms in Tokyo.

China all along did permit some access to its securities industry, but inroads for foreign firms have been patchy.

ENI, a state-controlled oil-and-gas group established in 1953 to help Italy escape dependence on foreign firms, is growing.

Some bankers believe that the keenest foreign firms may have got a little ahead of themselves.

The market is still dominated by joint ventures with foreign firms, but the strongest local manufacturers are rapidly expanding production.

The promise of a vast, untapped Chinese market has for over a decade filled the dreams of executives of foreign firms.

As is often the case in China, foreign firms face huge barriers.

Until now, co-operation between Chinese and foreign firms has been driven by western firms trying to do more business in China.

Worse, since foreign firms cannot hire directly, they are required to offer the kind of short-term contracts the new law bars.

It would also cut the country off from foreign credit, because foreign firms and banks would fear that their money would be trapped.

Shanghai authorities said this month their aim was to allow "qualified foreign firms" to issue A shares "at an appropriate time" .

Foreign firms should therefore retain some original supply relationships until Chinese suppliers prove reliable over the medium term.

This thesis threads by the time the story of Mr TangTingsu "s change from a comprador of foreign firms to a national capitalist. "

Yet for now, Mr Castro still considers letting foreign firms pay market wages a step too far. That has forced companies to break the law.

That result was closely linked to regulations aimed at squeezing foreign firms out of China's vast government procurement market .

Foreign firms are learning from domestic retailers with which they form joint ventures.

From this month, for instance, foreign firms are allowed into a wider range of agricultural businesses.

Until now, foreign firms have only been able to tap China's consumers when they use their Chinese bank cards overseas.

and should ensure that subsidies do not discriminate against foreign firms.

Some of those cases involved domestic U. S. companies and individuals; others concerned foreign firms.

A country with an uncompetitive exchange rate will struggle to sell its wares abroad and will also cede its home market to foreign firms.

Heavy restrictions will likely continue to make it exceedingly difficult for foreign firms to win approvals.

On top of that, the author also makes efforts to find out the main cause of the wage premium in China's foreign firms.

Indeed, the report recommends opening domestic research programmes to foreign firms, to take advantage of bright ideas from abroad.

Whether that alternative network should be built by foreign firms is not a foregone conclusion.

What foreign firms are wrestling with now, is how they'll adapt to such a world.

They also want China to open its services market to foreign firms and to curb export restrictions on things like rare earth minerals.

As a member of the World Trade Organisation, China has improved market access conditions for foreign firms to the legal sector.

The change meant allowing foreign firms a controlling stake of up to 65 percent in retail stores.

Foreign firms grumble that they cannot even buy the steel needed to make a car for that price.

Likewise, foreign firms eye China's and India's big and relatively open markets as a source of customers as well as competition.

Withstanding the onslaught of foreign firms on home soil may be as impressive a feat as beating them in global markets.

The new directive also disallows foreign firms from indirectly influencing Chinese gaming firms through agreements or technology support.

When conditions change, foreign firms that have partnered with local players will enjoy a competitive advantage.

In the U. S. , meanwhile, BOT schemes backed by foreign firms may become political mine fields.

Many foreign firms that choose to list their shares elsewhere point to America's "litigation lottery " as the principal reason.

One French worker in seven works for one of the 20, 000 foreign firms that have set up in the country; ten years ago it was one in 14.

Some foreign firms cope with this by concentrating on more developed urban areas and the upper segments of the consumer base.

Now more than a third of the case studies taught in strategy courses in American universities feature foreign firms.

Thanks to the WTO, foreign firms are no longer required to hand over technology in exchange for entry to China's market.

Giant began in 1972, taking advantage of low-cost Taiwanese labour to make bicycles for foreign firms as well as domestic buyers.

A few foreign firms, too, have gotten the go-ahead to run yuan funds.

As a 34-year-old woman in Zhengzhou told us, "Foreign firms are less likely to cut corners in the production and quality control process. "

Foreign firms have complained that Beijing had essentially used 'Buy China' regulations to bar foreign firms from high-technology projects.

Whatever China's long-term ambitions for developing its environmental industry, foreign firms can still expect significant demand.

Foreign firms face long delays in gaining approval for mergers and acquisitions while Chinese applications face 'little, if any, review. '

Foreign firms may not have bothered to develop their own technology if the American sort had been available.

China has tens of thousands of joint ventures and representative offices of foreign firms.

Foreign firms can only sell commercial auto insurance now but not mandatory auto insurance.

With licensIng, by contrast, domestic firms authorize foreign firms to use their techniques or trademarks In exchange for fee or royalty.

Status Offline Assessing the profitability of foreign firms is a challenge, since few companies reveal country-specific data.

Among different types of ownership, the state-owned firms have high leverage, compared with low leverage of foreign firms.

Chinese companies can now buy foreign ones with yuan; foreign firms can invest yuan raised offshore in their operations on the mainland.

No major foreign firms have pulled out of China to date. But many are considering their options.

In June, Shanghai released rules allowing foreign firms to register locally as equity investment management companies.

That would accord with rules recently put into effect that restrict the ability of foreign firms to develop derivatives.

Foreign firms hold trivial amounts of domestic financial assets (under 2%), and play only a marginal role in any domestic sector.

This would be done by increasing its own production and farming out marginal fields to foreign firms.

The unprecedented power which China possesses in its bargaining with foreign firms, is based on its size, growth rate and dynamic market.

China's government tightly restricts the ability of foreign firms to operate in its capital markets.

Foreign firms are also fuelling a red-hot jobs market for locals, at the expense of the old guard.

Foreign firms may have accepted their lot at the margins of China's insurance industry, but they still have plenty to worry about.

In the generation phase, occupational pension plans were mainly the imitations of the ones in foreign firms.

Foreign executives, or those with experience at foreign firms, can help Chinese companies crack overseas markets.

It is questionable, too, whether local governments and regulators will give foreign firms access to China's best investment opportunities.

Foreign firms lament losing trade battles they might not bother to wage in a less lucrative market.

Further foreign investment is expected after a recent decision to allow foreign firms to establish wholesale operations.

The Big Bang of 1986 abolished the distinction between brokers and jobbers and allowed foreign firms, with more capital, into the market.

A company or trade group can hold expositions or individual meetings where foreign firms are asked to attend and offer proposals.

Yet local firms' capacity to absorb knowledge is crucial in knowledge-sharing partnerships with foreign firms.

It has risen partly because India's own companies are eager to acquire foreign firms.

With a big reshuffle in the Communist Party due next year, politicians are keen to appear tough on food prices, and on foreign firms.

As big as China is and projected to become, naturally they should be able make acquisition of foreign firms.

Foreign firms brought several things to the table: capital, technology, management skills and the prospect of better corporate governance.

On balance, the competitive playing field in China is fairer to foreign firms that it was a decade ago. And we commend the Chinese for that.

The Philippine government's anti-poverty plans are stimulating foreign firms' interest in the country's mineral reserves.

The Philippine government's anti-poverty plans are stimulating foreign firms' interest in the country's mineral reserves.

The foreign firms hope they will be treated like domestic investors and free to invest in a broader range of industries.

Even if Li Ning can achieve a price advantage, the foreign firms' bold marketing expertise could help them make up ground.

Ineo China Consulting, Ltd is a fast growing service company specialized in providing strategic sourcing solutions to foreign firms.

The New York firm will hold 33% of the venture, the maximum China allows foreign firms to own in securities tie-ups.

However, several foreign firms, including Shell, are working on shale gas exploration.

China restricts the ability of foreign firms to operate in its capital markets.

Then radials rolled in. The industry ignored the trend, sure that drivers would reject tires from foreign firms.

And although Japanese boards eschew hostile takeovers at home, they have few such qualms for foreign firms.

Big banks say they must compete for staff with foreign firms that are not subject to restraints.

Foreign firms are also responding to these government initiatives.

Yet copying its strategy has become far harder now that most big emerging markets are in effect closed to large takeovers by foreign firms.

Coca-Cola's offer yesterday for Huiyuan Juice has caused worry at national brands being taken over by foreign firms.

Largely closed to foreign firms until 1980, China is now the world's fourth-largest trading nation, with total trade over $600 billion.

So do many luxury brands. But relatively few foreign firms have managed to reap such rewards.

Eventually these changes will likely see more foreign firms raising funds denominated in yuan.

It must abolish its requirement that foreign firms form joint ventures with Chinese partners.

a. The government should not allow imports if foreign firms are selling below their costs of production (a phenomenon called "dumping" ).

We won the contract in the face of competition from several foreign firms.

The three largest private-equity deals in Brazil's history took place in 2010, all of them carried out by foreign firms.

As our market explodes with possibilities, foreign firms struggle to find qualified local managers.

Medium-sized locals which have hooked up with foreign firms might challenge the oligopoly.

In recent months the press has been full of stories suggesting that a rising tide of economic nationalism was about to drown foreign firms.

Official, centralized statistics on U. S. and foreign firms venturing west are not available, and some moves are in the planning stages.

foreign firms can invest yuan raised offshore in their operations on the mainland.

It may be best for foreign firms to collaborate with them, not compete.

Yet, greater consumption should open opportunities for those foreign firms that can compete; this may reduce trade imbalances.

But perhaps most importantly, China has now changed, says Jesse Chang of TransAsia Lawyers, a law firm that advises foreign firms.

But in a country of 3. 5m the shortage of skilled workers is acute, discouraging foreign firms from investing and slowing their growth.

Greenpeace says the foreign firms need to insist upon higher standards throughout their supply chains.

British businesses used it to purchase stakes in foreign firms.

Many foreign firms have looked at the successes scored by China's carmakers in the past few years and quietly sighed with exasperation.

Iraq's plans to sign big new contracts with foreign firms are years behind schedule, as is its new oil law.

And there have been long delays over small decisions, such as the approval of investments by foreign firms.

But relatively few foreign firms have managed to reap such rewards.

Back then, the main orders for the lucrative urban network systems went to either state-owned companies or foreign firms.

A lot of Wortham's work is helping his clients, which are largely small to midsized foreign firms new to China, be better informed.

While the new law applies to all companies that employ foreigners, it will disproportionately affect foreign firms, Wall says.

As things stand, jobs will be generated when foreign firms engage in local manufacturing.

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"There's now a sense amongst many foreign firms that they need to start treating China as their home market. "

Foreign firms can choose their China joint venture partners freely.

But China would need approval from the foreign firms that designed the reactor.

The purchase of factories, buildings and other assets by foreign firms was hardest hit in rich countries.

Moreover, Russia still needs the expertise of foreign firms.

Stock company established a good channel, and several major foreign firms join hands to jointly develop the Chinese market.

Foreign firms that came for the workers will stay for the shoppers.

Designers foreign firms come in. I think it is a good thing, but we feel the impact of the construction plans will be achieved.

Thanks to recession at home, foreign firms are keener than ever to capitalise on China's growth.

Foreign firms hope that teaming up with Chinese companies abroad will help on that front.

What has changed is that the foreign firms are setting up funds geared toward local investors holding China's currency, the yuan.

"Even those of us who've been at foreign firms might not go back because of culture differences and job stability, " he added.

Sino-foreign firms ac-counted for almost 40 per cent of the $110bn in domestic mutual fund assets at the end of 2006.

In mirror image, the influence of foreign firms in China is likely to be limited.

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Three years after accession, foreign firms will be allowed 49 percent stakes in joint ventures.

Foreign firms own the three ferry lines that serve the cross-Channel port, the town's mainstay.

great plenty of foreign firms have set up factories here.

American companies used debt to buy back their own shares; British businesses used it to purchase stakes in foreign firms.

Over the past month, key foreign firms have agreed to hefty pay hikes for their Chinese employees.

Beijing is pilfering the technology of US and other foreign firms that set up shop on Chinese soil.

eg: Plenty of foreign firms have set up factories here.

Foreign firms with large manufacturing operations in China will not be immune.

Foreign firms are salivating. But they are also nervous.

It meant, too, that foreign firms could wipe out nascent industries, suppressing the development of entrepreneurial talent.

But they have all flourished because they were privatised, to a degree, and forced to compete with foreign firms in the 1990s.

But in sectors such as fund management and securities, Beijing still insists foreign firms form joint ventures with local firms.

Less clear in China's new policy for private-equity firms is how the foreign firms will benefit.

The Chinese government must accelerate plans to allow foreign firms to enter the sector.

Foreign firms assimilate or die.

The risk that big foreign firms will suddenly find that their investments in China are illegal or worthless is surely remote.

In its wake foreign firms piled into industries such as consumer goods and carmaking, drawn by a big pool of labour and customers.

The resourcefulness of 3i in finding high-profile candidates shows how foreign firms have to dig deep when negotiating in China.

In addition, French trains are pushing swiftly into Germany's domestic market, which is already open to foreign firms.

Foreign firms are less relaxed.

There are also openings for foreign firms in fund management and other businesses.

Still, the climate for foreign firms in China is starting to feel frosty.

Of the top 50 applicants for patents in India between 1995 and 2005, 44 were foreign firms, while only six were Indian.

Unlike foreign firms such as Pepsi (see article), Russia's private firms are too nervous to invest in their own economy.

Trade and investment offers a big loophole for Chinese and foreign firms.

Canada and France, for example, are two countries in which foreign firms find significant handles in the way of direct foreign investment.

POSCO has controlling stakes in 20 domestic companies and 43 foreign firms.

In a sense, foreign firms are simply tracking industry trends in China.

Other foreign firms, such as Spain's Repsol YPF and Brazil's Petrobras, are prospecting in adjacent lots.

Rebalancing will inevitably slow profit growth in China, for local and foreign firms alike.

No wonder more than 300, 000 foreign firms have invested in the Middle Kingdom.

Its export boom has been led by foreign firms.

There's also an opening for foreign firms to engage in exploration for unconventionals in China.

If Dow needs a new source of basic ingredients, it relies mostly on joint ventures with foreign firms such as Mitsui of Japan.

We are glad to learn that China is encouraging equity joint ventures with foreign firms.

By 1998 some 36 foreign firms had set up shop and were rapidly expanding their output.

Many foreign firms are focusing on increasing their markets in China.

Foreign firms 'can be listed in China'.

Foreign firms still have a tremendous thirst for oil like Iraq's, which is very cheap to produce and refine.

Foreign firms now account for 23% of the sales of the top 100 food retailers in China.

They do, however, set local product standards and thus can have a huge influence over foreign firms' sales in China.

Foreign firms previously had to distribute products made in China through domestic companies.

More Americans are getting their pay-cheques from foreign firms: 5. 3m in 2006, or 4. 5% of the private workforce.

Last year Prax became one of the first foreign firms to win approval to raise a fund denominated in the domestic yuan.

Limited by import caps, foreign firms have less than 5% of a market worth US$74. 4bn last year.

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Foreign firms plowed $1. 7 billion into China's water sector from 2004-2009, investing over $500 million in 2009 alone.

As a result foreign firms' market share in China has long stagnated at under 2%.

For foreign firms, that is a reminder that a weak link to the local market is a recipe for failure in China.

No one knows how fast China will open the floodgates to investors or foreign firms.

And the private sector-whose foreign investments last year exceeded those made in India by foreign firms-has led the charge.

Foreign firms in Japan (and similarly sexist South Korea) see a wealth of undervalued clever women and make a point of hiring them.

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