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CIRCULAR OF THE GENERAL OFFICE OF THE STATE COUNCIL ON RESTATING ONCE AGAIN THE PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE PROMULGATION OF NATIONAL REGULATIONS AND POLICIES ON FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND TRADE

    With a view to unifying the policies and scheme of our country on
foreign economic relations and trade, and enhancing the transparency of
administrative scheme on foreign economic relations and trade of our
country, the General Office of the State Council has issued the Circular
on Restating the Provisions Concerning the Formulation and Promulgation
of National Regulations and Policies on Foreign Economic Relations and
Trade. The following are hereby restated once again:

    1. The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation shall be
the functional department under the State Council responsible for the
comprehensive administration for the national work of foreign economic
relations and trade. From now on, all national rules, regulations and
policies on foreign economic relations and trade shall be examined and
promulgated to the public by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic
Cooperation (with the exception of those which need to be worked out in
the form of legislation or to be promulgated by the State Council).

    2. When the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation is
formulating national regulations and policies on foreign economic
relations and trade relating to the sphere of functions and powers of
other relevant departments, it shall solicit opinions from the relevant
departments or consult with the relevant departments for jointly signing
and issuing; if it needs to ask the State Council for instructions, it
shall submit reports to the State Council for approval.

    3. Without authorization of the State Council, all localities and
departments shall not formulate and promulgate national regulations
and policies (which include catalogues of goods under import and export
prohibition or restriction). When the relevant regulations and policies
relating to the questions on foreign economic relations and trade are
formulated by various localities and departments within their respective
sphere of functions and powers, they shall base on, and shall not
conflict with the state's laws and regulations on foreign economic
relations and trade.

    From the date of October 10, 1993, only the promulgated laws,
provisions, regulations, decrees, administrative directives and policies
on foreign economic relations and trade shall be implemented.