USITO Call for Comments: SAMR and MOFCOM Released E-Commerce Law of the People’s Republic of China (Draft for Comments)
On July 4, SAMR and MOFCOM released the E-Commerce Law of the People’s Republic of China (Draft Amendment for Public Comments). The currently effective E-Commerce Law was adopted in 2018 and came into effect on January 1, 2019. The draft amendment focuses on expanding platform responsibilities, strengthening platform governance and enforcement mechanisms, improving coordinated and tiered supervision of the platform economy, and adding provisions related to international cooperation, dispute resolution, extraterritorial application, and countermeasures. The draft may have implications for USITO members operating in China’s digital, e-commerce, online service, platform-related, and cross-border business sectors, particularly with respect to platform governance, compliance management, product and service information review, operator documentation, internal responsibility allocation, and enforcement exposure.
