Negative List for market access identify • Table.Briefings

Florian Hirschmann and Siling Zhong-Ganga, Reed Smith

„Negative list“ sounds particularly restrictive at first, but the instrument is a step forward compared to the positive list: China allows investment in all areas that are not explicitly restricted by the list. In the current fourth version of the list, the number of regulated areas decreases further.

On 9 October 2021 China’s top economic planning body, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), published its annual update of the Negative List for Market Access (the „Negative List 2021„) for public comments.

Negative List for market access identifying likely no-go business areas

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