Genetic Modification in Agriculture: The Impact of China's Regulations on Foreign Trade and Investment

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China has encouraged research in genetic modification of agricultural crops, and by some accounts its regulatory structure is more progressive than other large developing countries. But the country's legal developments in the agricultural sector to date still carry a predisposition to unnecessary trade restrictions.

By Lester Ross and Walter Hutchens, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Beijing

Genetic modification or genetic engineering1 is the modification of the genetic structure of living organisms through

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