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China’s Revised Arbitration and Foreign Trade Laws Signal a Regulatory Modernization Push Ahead of the NPC

China’s revised Arbitration Law and revised Foreign Trade Law are set to take effect on March 1, 2026, completing a legislative cycle that began with the NPC Standing Committee’s adoption of the amendments in late 2025. The two laws, while addressing different aspects of China’s commercial legal framework, share a common objective: modernizing the regulatory…

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China’s January Regulatory Reset Demands a Rethink From Every Foreign Company Operating There

January 1, 2026 brought a cluster of regulatory changes in China that, individually, might be described as incremental. Taken together, they represent a material shift in how foreign companies must structure their operations, manage their data, and price their risk. The most technically significant change is the new Value-Added Tax Law, which replaced the existing…

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