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China Laws and Regulations Update in April 2014

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  1. Shanghai Customs Reform the Supervision and Administrative System of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone in Eleven (11) Respects

In response to AQSIQ’s (General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China) issuance of the Notice on Supporting Animals and Plants Inspection and Quarantine Reforms in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone on March 4th, Shanghai Customs has  launched a series of administrative system reforms in eleven (11) respects, introducing a negative list, entitlements to ‘post customs declaration’, ‘free freight transport,’  ‘unified customs declaration’ , a list of goods applied to simplified import filing procedures, etc. to the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone.

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A Trademark Infringement Dispute Caused by Recycled Budweiser Bottles

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(By You Yunting)To save costs, Chinese beer manufacturers have been using recycled bottle to refill beer, and while most large-scale beer manufacturers will engrave their trademarks into their glass bottles, as well as recycle their own bottles. However, for small-scale beer manufacturers, such practices are impractical, and when small beer manufacturers use other larger manufacturer’s bottles with their trademarks, all the ingredients for trademark infringement are present. In today’s post, we will introduce to you two cases heard by two different courts concerning the same issue. 

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