{"id":692,"date":"2006-08-31T07:23:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T23:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinacsr.com\/2006\/08\/31\/most-us-firms-in-china-primarily-serve-domestic-market\/"},"modified":"2006-08-31T07:23:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T23:23:50","slug":"most-us-firms-in-china-primarily-serve-domestic-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinacsr.com\/en\/2006\/08\/31\/692-most-us-firms-in-china-primarily-serve-domestic-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Most U.S. Firms In China Primarily Serve Domestic Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.-China Business Council's annual member survey reveals that U.S. companies are optimistic about their China operations even as they face old and new hurdles to operating in the Chinese market.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>81% of companies say that their Chinese operations are profitable, a significant increase from a U.S. government survey in 1999. More than half say that profitability rates for their China operations meet or exceed their company's global profit margins.<\/p>\n<p>Most U.S. investment in China is in 100% U.S.-owned enterprises, not joint ventures with Chinese partners. This trend has developed steadily with China's market openings. Nearly 75% of new foreign investment is now in wholly foreign-owned enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>USCBC companies primarily invest in China to serve the Chinese domestic market, not export back to the United States, and 57% of the respondents said that their main investment objective was to access the China market. Only 18% invest in China as an export platform to the U.S. market.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also reveals that the top operating concern this year is not a policy issue, but rather it is human resources. The shortage of experienced and skilled local executive talent, especially in middle management ranks, is a persistent and growing problem for U.S. companies.<\/p>\n<p>\"U.S. companies have made significant gains in China, thanks in part to China's World Trade Organization entry and other market openings,\" said USCBC President John Frisbie. \"But a shortage of skilled managers, problems with licensing and business approvals, inadequate intellectual property protection, and a general lack of transparency are among the hurdles U.S. companies still face as they try to act on these market openings.\"<\/p>\n<p>Intellectual property rights protection is still a top issue, but getting business licenses and government approvals has emerged as a more immediate concern. Companies run into licensing issues as they seek to act on WTO openings in sectors such as construction, financial services, distribution, and product licenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.-China Business Council's annual member survey reveals that U.S. companies are optimistic about their China operations even as they face old and new hurdles to operating in the Chinese market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Most U.S. Firms In China Primarily Serve Domestic Market - ChinaCSR.com - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Business Intelligence, and Sustainability News for China<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The U.S.-China Business Council&#039;s annual member survey reveals that U.S. companies are optimistic about their China operations even as they face old and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chinacsr.com\/en\/2006\/08\/31\/692-most-us-firms-in-china-primarily-serve-domestic-market\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Most U.S. Firms In China Primarily Serve Domestic Market - 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