Retail Trade and Distribution

• New Negative List sets FDI roadmap

  How industry barrier changes in the previous and new versions of the Foreign Investment Catalogue--and the introduction of the Negative List system--impact market access compliance

  December 11, 2017

  

• New Anti-unfair Competition Law tackles dominance abuse, enterprise bribery

  DLA Piper

  November 10, 2017

  

• The new and improved Negative List for China's free trade zones

  The redesigned 2017 Negative List applicable to China's 11 free trade zones signifies another big step forward for the nation's foreign investment regime

  October 12, 2017

  

• State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Circular on the Work Related to Facilitating the Conduct of Reviews of Trade Documents by Banks

  国家外汇管理局关于便利银行开展贸易单证审核有关工作的通知

  Forex procedures relaxed for trade in goods.

  September 16, 2017

• Ministry of Commerce, National Development and Reform Commission, People's Bank of China, General Administration of Customs and State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, Several Opinions on Further Advancing Experimentation in the Comprehensive Pilot Project for a New Open Economic System

  商务部、发展改革委、人民银行、海关总署、质检总局关于进一步推进开放型经济新体制综合试点试验的若干意见

  Joint private and foreign investment encouraged in banks in pilot areas.

  September 16, 2017

• Ministry of Finance and State Administration of Taxation, Circular on Policies Relevant to Simplifying and Consolidating Value-added Tax Rates

  财政部、国家税务总局关于简并增值税税率有关政策的通知

  VAT rate structure simplified.

  August 31, 2017

• Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue (Amended in 2017)

  外商投资产业指导目录 (2017 年修订)

  Foreign investment negative list released.

  August 09, 2017

• Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue (Amended in 2017)

  外商投资产业指导目录 (2017 年修订)

  Foreign investment negative list released.

  August 09, 2017

• National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Commerce, Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue (Amended in 2017)

  国家发展和改革委员会、商务部外商投资产业指导目录 (2017年修订)

  Foreign investment catalogue further lifts restrictions.

  July 19, 2017

• Office of the State Commercial Cryptography Administration, PRC Cryptography Law (Draft for Comments)

  国家商用密码管理办公室中华人民共和国密码法 (草案征求意见稿)

  Issued: April 13 2017 Main contents: The state divides cryptography into core cryptography, ordinary cryptography and commercial cryptography…

  June 29, 2017