Recently, China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) issued new measures for the registration of foreign companies in China, in which the government emphasizes the principle of pre-establishment national treatment for foreign companies in the process of registration. The new rules will take effect next month.

Recently China announced that it would allow corn imports from Myanmar, while suspending wood imports from Lithuania.

On February 21, the Chinese government released an updated list of cross-border e-commerce products that are subject to lower taxes when imported under a designated value threshold.

During a recent press conference, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said that China would impose sanctions on two U.S. defense firms, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, over arms sales to Taiwan.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently published a revised version of a proposed regulation governing data security in industrial and information sectors. The change, to some extent, broadens the scope of the regulation. The agency previously published the first draft last September.

China and the United Arab Emirates will have mutual recognition of certified operators starting today and China's Customs recently released more information on the implementation.

China's food certification agency recently published more details on the implementation of mutual recognition of organic products with New Zealand. On the same day, the New Zealand government also issued a document outlining details for its domestic exporters.