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Laws, regulations, judicial interpretations, and legislative updates involving foreign-related matters.
The 2026 State Council rules establish mechanisms for identifying unlawful extraterritorial jurisdiction, a malicious entity list, prohibition orders, countermeasures, and judicial remedies.
The Cybersecurity Law and its 2025 amendment form a core framework for cyberspace governance, critical information infrastructure protection, data export security, and cyber compliance.
The State Council regulation details countermeasure procedures and enforcement mechanisms under the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, strengthening China's counter-sanctions toolkit.
The 2025 State Council regulations provide mechanisms for overseas IP information services, warnings, enterprise capacity building, domestic service and evidence procedures, and countermeasures against unfair treatment.
The 2024 revision, effective January 1, 2025, updates AML obligations for financial and designated non-financial institutions and includes international cooperation provisions.
Adopted in 2024 and effective January 1, 2025, the Energy Law establishes rules for energy security, green transition, energy markets, reserves, and international cooperation.
State Council Decree No. 790 details network data processing, personal information protection, important data, and cross-border network data security rules, effective January 1, 2025.
Adopted in 2024 and effective December 1, 2024, the Tariff Law governs customs duties on imported and exported goods and inbound articles, supporting foreign trade order and high-level opening-up.
The CAC provisions adjust China's mechanisms for data export security assessment, standard contracts, and personal information protection certification to facilitate lawful data flows.
The 2023 revision of the Company Law reshapes capital contribution rules, governance structures, directors’ duties, and corporate compliance arrangements relevant to foreign-invested enterprises.
The 2023 amended implementing rules support patent-system reform, including applications, examination, open licensing, and international applications relevant to foreign-related IP disputes.
The 2023 amendments to the Civil Procedure Law strengthened rules on foreign-related jurisdiction, service, evidence taking, and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.
The Law on Foreign State Immunity defines China's jurisdictional rules for civil cases involving foreign states and their property.
The Law on Foreign Relations, effective July 1, 2023, provides a foundational framework for China's foreign relations, including principles, institutional responsibilities, and legal safeguards.
CAC Order No. 13 sets conditions, impact assessment, filing, and contractual requirements for outbound transfer of personal information through standard contracts.
The Foreign Trade Law sets out China’s basic rules for trade in goods, technology import and export, services trade, trade order, and foreign trade promotion.
The Supreme People's Court provisions clarify jurisdictional arrangements for foreign-related civil and commercial cases and support more efficient adjudication.
The measures set out the scope, filing procedure, and continuing supervision requirements for security assessment of important data and personal information exports.
The Personal Information Protection Law establishes personal information processing rules, cross-border transfer mechanisms, and extraterritorial application provisions central to data compliance.
The Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law establishes the legal basis for countermeasures, countermeasure lists, and remedies against discriminatory restrictive measures imposed by foreign states.
The Data Security Law establishes classified data protection, important data export controls, and liability for certain data processing activities outside China.
Adopted in 2021, the law provides the legal framework for Hainan Free Trade Port, including trade and investment liberalization, cross-border capital flows, mobility, transport, and data flows.
The Customs Law provides the framework for customs supervision of inbound and outbound conveyances, goods, articles, duty collection, anti-smuggling, and customs statistics.
MOFCOM Order No. 1 of 2021 creates reporting, assessment, prohibition order, exemption, and compensation mechanisms against unjustified extraterritorial measures.
The regulation governs technology import and export contracts, licensing for restricted technologies, and registration mechanisms relevant to cross-border technology transactions and IP licensing.
The Copyright Law is relevant to digital content circulation, cross-border licensing, platform responsibility, and implementation of international IP treaties.
The Export Control Law establishes China's basic export control framework, including policies, control lists, temporary controls, licensing, and end-user and end-use management.
The Patent Law is central to foreign-related IP protection, technology trade, cross-border licensing, standard-essential patents, and outbound enterprise IP strategy.
MOFCOM Order No. 4 of 2020 establishes the Unreliable Entity List system for foreign entities harming China's sovereignty, security, development interests, or Chinese parties' lawful rights.
The Civil Code’s contract, property, personality-rights, and tort rules provide key domestic-law foundations for foreign-related civil and commercial disputes.
The Securities Law governs issuance, trading, disclosure, investor protection, and securities supervision, providing a foundation for capital-market opening and listed-company compliance.
The Cryptography Law addresses commercial cryptography, import licensing, export control, and information security, making it relevant to cross-border data, technology trade, and security compliance.
The Trademark Law concerns registration, protection, infringement remedies, and international brand strategy, supporting cross-border trade, platform governance, and overseas interest protection.
The Foreign Investment Law governs promotion, protection, management, and liability for foreign investment, serving as a key legal foundation for opening-up and the business environment.
This law governs international criminal judicial assistance in investigation, prosecution, trial, enforcement, evidence, asset freezing, confiscation, return of proceeds, and transfer of sentenced persons.
The E-Commerce Law governs platform responsibilities, online contracts, dispute resolution, and cross-border e-commerce regulatory coordination, supporting digital trade and platform compliance research.
This law sets conflict-of-law rules for foreign-related civil relations and is a foundational text for foreign law ascertainment, private international law, and cross-border civil and commercial disputes.
The law sets special procedures for maritime jurisdiction, preservation of maritime claims, arrest and auction of ships, maritime injunctions, evidence preservation, and related proceedings.
The Arbitration Law governs arbitration agreements, commissions, proceedings, setting aside awards, enforcement, and special provisions for foreign-related arbitration.
The Maritime Code governs vessels, maritime transport contracts, limitation of liability, general average, and foreign-related maritime legal issues.
This law addresses China’s territorial sea, contiguous zone, innocent passage, and maritime rights protection, making it a key domestic source for law-of-the-sea research.
The State Council regulations implementing the Foreign Investment Law detail investor rights, registration, equity structure, and enforcement interface.
Judicial guidance linked to the Foreign Investment Law clarifies remedy channels and procedural alignment for investor-related disputes.
The 2024 National Foreign Investment Access Negative List defines remaining sectoral restrictions and reflects continued liberalization in market entry.
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