On 5 December 2016, the National Development and Reform Commission ("NDRC") – one of the three Chinese antitrust authorities – issued its decision fining the local unit of Medtronic, a U.S.-listed…
On 4 November 2016, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce ("SAIC") – one of China's antitrust authorities – published on its website three decisions, whereby three payment encryption…
In June 2015, China pushed through a relatively bold liberalization of drug prices, moving from a regime where the government decides the prices or price ranges of the most commonly used drugs to a…
On 14 June 2016, China's State Council made public the Opinions on Establishing a Fair Competition Review System in the Development of the Market Regime ("Opinions"). The Opinions were approved on 1…
On 8 June 2016, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM") released its decision to lift the conditions it had imposed on Walmart's acquisition of 33.6% of the shares in Newheight Holdings. This…
WeChat is a very popular messaging app in China, similar to WhatsApp and Facebook Messaging in other parts of the world. It has social networking, gaming, e-commerce and mobile payment…
On April 22, 2016, the State Council – China's "cabinet" – released a reform plan for the salt industry.
Salt-imbocca
Edible salt has been subject to a State/government monopoly/-ies in China since…
Co-authored by Jay Modrall and Shan Hu. The authors of this article would like to thank Marc Waha, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, for his insightful comments.
1 Introduction
The Chinese National…
