Legislation Roundup: Antitrust review, Overseas loans, and Product barcodes

SAMR delegates certain antitrust reviews to local market regulators. Chinese companies may extend offshore loans to overseas companies with shareholding relationships only. Use of overseas registered product barcodes require record filing.

By Susan Mok

Antitrust

State Administration for Market Regulation, Announcement on Further Improving the System for the Delegated Review of Concentrations of Business Operators

国家市场监督管理总局市场监管总局关于进一步完善经营者集中委托审查制度的公告

Commencing on August 1, 2025, the State Administration for Market Regulation has officially delegated the conduct of certain anti-monopoly reviews of concentrations of business operators to the market regulation authorities of provinces (municipalities directly under the central government) such as Beijing Municipality,

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