Retail Trade and Distribution

China approves the U.S. listing plans of VIE-structured company CheChe; Chinese IP court helps mediate dispute between Dyson and Dreame; and CSRC proposes rules to encourage companies to pay their dividends

With the European Union’s revised product safety rules coming into effect in December 2024, Chinese firms should take notice of major changes to the rules and how they can comply with them.

China meets executives of international firms in order to reassure them over data security regulations; CSRC seeks regulatory opinion for the frist time for overseas listing; and Chinese automobile parts included in U.S. import detention over Xinjiang concerns

China's securities watchdog instruct lawyers to tone down China-related risk disclosures in prospectuses; new rules restrict export of drones and related technologies; and bubble tea companies seek foreign listings amidst growing regulatory scrutiny

U.S. senators propose amendment to defense bill requiring the tracking of U.S. investments in China; Foreign firms are accelerating their push to decouple their data in China from the rest of the world; and China's commerce minister pledges to open up more opportunities to foreign pharmaceutical firms in a roundtable meeting

No Chinese companies have successfully listed overseas due to tight scrutiny from domestic regulators; A Beijing company succeeds in making a SCC filing for the cross-border transfer of data; and China announces measures to open up free trade zones in order to lure back foreign investors.

British firms in China are concerned about the way China introduces new regulations and the vagueness of its laws; the European Union introduces additional product safety-related requirements for businesses selling products online to domestic consumers; Hong Kong seeks to allow offerors and their concert parties to vote in a shareholders' meeting regarding a firm’s privatization.

Shipping firms are demanding their Chinese counterparts include break clauses in contracts over concerns about sanctions; Florida and Montana have introduced laws restricting Chinese nationals from owning land; and China is investing in training and research of blockchain technology despite its harsh cryptocurrency crackdown;.

Electric vehicle companies are trying to capture both U.S. and Chinese markets; Hong Kong Stock Exchange plans to mandate climate disclosures; and China aims to protect private enterprises

Business operators should clearly mark prices and the pricing units/methods.