In this issue: On Feb. 1, five new regulations implementing the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law came into effect, implemented by two key authorities, NDRC and SAIC. This issue, organized and introduced…

Dina Kallay, Feb 28, 2011 This brief note highlights some ongoing antitrust cooperation between the United States and China. Over the past twenty years, the rapid growth in the number…

Adrian Emch, Feb 28, 2011 Decoding the New Chinese Antitrust Rules Virtually in parallel with the arrival of the Chinese New Year, five new regulations implementing the Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”)…

Yue Bo, Nathan Bush, Feb 28, 2011 On December 29, 2010, the National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”) released the Anti-Price Monopoly Regulation and the Regulation on the Anti-Price Monopoly…

Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition Enforcement Bureau, Feb 28, 2011 Antitrust laws are essential to a market economy. The effective implementation of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”) is of immense significance for…

Wan Jiang, Zhou Zhigao, Feb 28, 2011 Over two years have passed since the Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”) entered into effect on August 1, 2008. According to the AML and related…

Richean Li, Feb 28, 2011 Explaining how China enforces its antitrust law is not an easy task: the most difficult problem for anyone who wants to do so is describing…

NDRC, MerNinette Dodoo, Feb 28, 2011 Since the introduction of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”) in August 2008, much of the precedent and practice has focused on China’s merger control regime.…

Michael Zhengping Gu, Feb 28, 2011 Unlike the Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”), which is in charge of merger control, the National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”) and the State Administration…