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New laws, rules take effect today
By Cui Ning & Jiao Xiaoyang (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-01-01 00:15
A government decree on how to decide the origin of goods in foreign trade
becomes effective today, along with a host of other new rules that will have an
effect on business and private life starting from the New Year.
The Regulation on the Origin of Import and Export Goods, promulgated by the
State Council in September, will promote the healthy flow of imports and exports
by strictly defining countries or regions of the origin of goods in line with
World Trade Organization (WTO) standards.
The regulation is applicable to such aspects as most favoured nation status,
anti-dumping and anti-subsidy, guarantee measures, management on marks of
origin, limits on the number of nationalities, tariff quotas and other relevant
measures for non-preferential trade. It is also applicable to definitions of
such activities as governmental purchase and trade statistics.
"It is the country's first rule that strictly regulates the origin of import
and export goods... It will help improve the country's export goods with a mark
of origin," said Kang Yuyan, an official of the Department for Origin of General
Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, in a telephone
interview with China Daily.
Kang said the administration is stipulating rules for better managing
certificates of export goods with a mark of origin, in order to meet new demands
of China's growing foreign trade and to further meet the standards of the WTO.
Kang said counterfeited certificates of goods from China have not been rare
recent years.
For example, he said that more than 966 forged certificates, either from
China or outside China, had been found in Poland over the past two years. This
has badly influenced the country's export trade.
A legislative explanation of "credit card" in criminal law is also effective
today. The explanation, recently approved by the Standing Committee of the
National People's Congress, aims to curb the increasing number of offences
involving bank cards.
The current law has a special clause for credit card crimes, but does not
define what a credit card is, resulting in occurrences of inconsistent charges
at times.
The new explanation brings almost all kinds of electronic bank cards into the
credit card category, including debit cards and other kinds of cards that may
not necessarily allow overdrafts.
On judicial aspects, an explanation of the Supreme People's Court on handling
property in the enforcement of civil verdicts comes into force today.
Aside from detailed procedures on the disposal of property in enforcement
jobs, the explanation highlighted that basic living necessities are free from
seizure, freezes or sequestration.
In some technology-related regulations also effective from today,
newly-developed computer software products and new species of plants will be
included in the protection range of technological achievements.
The Ministry of Commerce also commenced three new directives today, including
one on auction administration, one on supervision of the processed oil market,
as well as a set of measures overseeing the issuance of import licences for auto
products.
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