Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP (JD Supra China)

Since March 2020, the Chinese government has allowed Chinese companies to file exclusion applications for products currently subject to China’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports. In the official announcement, there is currently no due date for such exclusion applications.

To ensure the effective implementation of the new Foreign Investment Law (the FIL) as well as to clarify the issues not clearly addressed in the FIL and to better protect the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investors, the State Council of China published the Implementing Regulations for the Foreign Investment Law of the People’s Republic of China (the FIL Implementing Regulations) on...

Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), most companies in China have been completely shut down or operating at a fraction of their capacity for almost a month and a half, since the beginning of Chinese New Year in late January. Now, most employers in China are slowly getting back to somewhat normal operations, with most employees gradually returning to offices and factories.

China has promulgated a series of implementation rules and guidelines after the Cybersecurity Law of China took effect in June 2017. The most recent one requires that online news information service providers conduct security assessments when they use any new technologies and new applications with the function of shifting public opinion and social mobilization.

The recent shutdown of an auto parts supplier in Shanghai for violating environmental laws demonstrates a new era in China – one in which environmental concerns are being prioritized and laws enforced. Companies should rise to the challenge by taking steps toward compliance.

China has issued its second draft of cross-border data transfer guidelines for public comments, as one of a series of the implementation rules for the Cybersecurity Law of China. The “Information Security Technology-Guidelines for Data Cross-Border Transfer Security Assessment” (the “Second Draft”) was jointly released by the Standardization Administration of China (SAC) and the General...

Since the Cybersecurity Law of China took effect three months ago, various peripheral regulations have been published by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and other related agencies. These regulations have facilitated the interpretation and implementation of the Cybersecurity Law on different subjects, such as personal information protection, cross-border data transfer and related...

With the Cybersecurity Law of China effective on June 1, 2017, and the draft data transmission measures pending finalization, Chinese regulators on May 27, 2017, published another draft rule as a piece of the newly formed China cross-border data transmission regulatory puzzle. The “Information Security Technology-Guidelines for Data Cross-Border Transfer Security Assessment” (Draft Guidelines)

Since the Cybersecurity Law of China will take effect on June 1, 2017, the Chinese government has issued multiple regulations related to the implementation of this law, including the rules regarding the cross-border data transactions, and security review on products and services.

The controversial Cybersecurity Law of China, issued in November 2016 by the National Congress Standing Committee, will become effective on June 1, 2017. This new rule requires the network service providers in China to participate in protection of the national cybersecurity. Such service providers not only include the basic telecom operators, but also the value-added service providers, such as...

On September 3, 2016, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) adopted the Decision on Revising Four Laws, Including the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprises («?????????????????????????») (NPC Decision). On October 8, 2016, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) further issued the Provisional Administrative Measures on the Establishment of

Workplace safety incidents have been an issue in China throughout the 21st century, a consequence of the rapid growth of the country’s economy, the pursuit of high profits at the expense of safety and lax government oversight into work safety policies, particularly at the local enforcement level. The media has begun to shed light on high-profile incidents –accidents that resulted in the loss of...

For a long period of time, China did not allow foreign investors to form wholly foreign-owned subsidiaries in China to operate medical institutions. This has now changed.

The Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone (Shanghai FTZ), established on September 29, 2013, has been earmarked by the Chinese government as a center for experimentation with reduction or elimination of restrictions on foreign investment in China. For this purpose, it has adopted a "negative list" approach, featuring a finite list of the restrictions and prohibitions on foreign investment that will be...

The Shanghai International Arbitration Center's (SHIAC) "China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone Arbitration Rules" (FTZ Arbitration Rules) took effect on May 1, 2014. The FTZ Arbitration Rules adopt some recent developments in international arbitration practice and rules of several other international arbitration institutions. Key features of the FTZ Arbitration Rules are highlighted below.

The fact that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been on China’s radar for bribery is nothing new – the Chinese authorities instituted an investigation against the company in July 2013. What is new is that GSK’s former Vice President of Pharmaceuticals in China, Mark Reilly, was identified last week as the ringleader of a “massive bribery network”. Reilly and two other Chinese executives have been accused