China's Customs recently announced that it will allow longan imports from Cambodia. This is the third fruit that has been allowed to be shipped from Cambodia to China.

Recently, China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), along with 13 other agencies, issued a new rule on compensation for environmentally damaging behavior. This is the first nation-wide regulation as part of the implementation of China's Civil Code provisions that address this matter. It took effect

China's state planner recently issued a draft of the catalogue of sectors in which foreign investment is encouraged. The draft expanded the encouraged sectors to cover agriculture, equipment manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, as well as technical services. It also encourages investment in China's northeastern, central and western

China's securities regulator is currently soliciting public comments on a recently issued draft of measures on cybersecurity issues in the securities and futures sector. The comments are due by May 29.

China's Ministry of Commerce recently published a draft of its implementing rules for its Export Control Law. The draft is now open for public comments until May 22. Some of the noteworthy elements of the draft are summarized below.

China's Customs recently issued documents that will allow imports of wild aquatic products from Kenya, as long as they meet the inspection and quarantine requirements.

Starting on May 1, a set of new rules governing foreign-invested telecom companies came into effect. The new rules leave room for the government to lift the current cap on foreign investment in the sector, and to streamline the licensing procedure.