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Intriguingly, the invite says, “In the future, don’t buy from the retailer, don’t buy from the wholesaler, don’t even buy from the importer, it’s the exporter that you need to talk to!”
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Special Report: NPC, CPPCC Annual Sessions 2007
BEIJING, March 16 (Xinhua) -- China's parliament, the National People's Congress, adopted the enterprise income tax law Friday morning with 2,826 votes for and 37 against, and 22 abstentions, a key signal of a phase-in end of superior treatments to foreign investors for two decades.
The 60-article law was ratified by the lawmakers as they concluded their 11.5-day annual full session at the Great Hall of the People in downtown Beijing. The law is due to take effect on Jan. 1,2008.
The voting result, announced by NPC Standing Committee ChairmanWu Bangguo, was warmly applauded by lawmakers. Four legislators did not cast their votes.
Experts say the law marks an adjustment of China's policies toward foreign investment in the current times.
The law, which sets unified income tax rate for domestic and foreign companies at 25 percent , came after years of criticism that the original dual income tax mechanism is unfair to domestic enterprises.
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In 2004, China imported almost 7,500 KL of bottled sparkling and table wine, and 36,600 KL of bulk wine [World Trade Atlas].
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Coldiretti estimate that "By the year end national food and wine exports to China could reach 50 million euro going by ISTAT figures for the first seven months of this year".
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It has been a little over 10 years since the first convenience store opened in Shanghai. Now, the number has grown to more than 5,000.
In some neighbourhoods, you can find one on every street corner. They are everywhere in the business districts, shopping strips, inner-city slums and the newly developed suburbs.
These new additions to the urban landscape are also densely packed together. Just outside the gates of middle-class housing estate Century Garden, in the southern outskirts of Shanghai, there are four convenience stores - two on each side of the street.
Convenience stores have indeed become a part of everyday life in Shanghai, says Gu Guojian, a senior expert at the China Chain Store and Franchise Association.
"The expansion of convenience stores in Shanghai is really amazing," Gu says.
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LA GRANDE DISTRIBUZIONE IN CINA.
Il settore della distribuzione rappresenta uno degli aspetti più problematici e al contempo più importanti del mercato cinese: l’ambiguità normativa, la rete dei trasporti inadeguata, la vasta dispersione dei mercati e l’eccessiva localizzazione della rete distributiva pongono spesso forti ostacoli alla penetrazione delle imprese straniere. Prima della riforma del 1986 tutti i prodotti che entravano in Cina passavano attraverso l’ unico canale di distribuzione esistente, quello statale.
Questa debolezza della fase distributiva, soprattutto per i prodotti di importazione, riflette la realtà di un mercato ancora giovane, in fase di evoluzione, ed un atteggiamento degli operatori che tendono ancora a subire il mercato piuttosto che guidarlo. Per i beni strumentali, sta diventando sempre più evidente che è necessario utilizzare soprattutto i distributori cinesi.
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by ICE Sistema Informativo Nazionale per il Commercio Estero
Italy to China
(values in thousands of euro)
Export
Product: 03 - Food industry products and beverages
Jan-Oct 2005: 19.019
Jan-Oct 2006: 43.893
%: +130,78
Product: 159 - Beverages
Japan
Jan-Dec 2005: 111.927
Jan-Oct 2006: 99.565
China
Jan-Dec 2005: 5.145
Jan-Oct 2006: 10.399
Product: 15931 - Table Wine and v.q.p.r.d.
Japan
Jan-Dec 2005: 79.446
Jan-Oct 2006: 71.051
China
Jan-Dec 2005: 4.580
Jan-Oct 2006: 5.551
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