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The countermeasure framework on one page

Toolkit

China's foreign-economic countermeasure mechanisms, each with the instrument that provides for it and the list or official actions it has produced. Every node opens a cited record.

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Governing instrumentThe law, regulation or rule that expressly provides for the mechanism.
MechanismA list, a procedure, an order or a register of actions.
Lists & actionsWhat it has produced, with counts derived from dated official actions.
Pillar

Designation lists

Lists of named parties, each provided for by its governing instrument.

Pillar

Export controls

Recipient lists, destination-specific measures and controlled-item catalogues.

Pillar

Extraterritoriality

Two regimes against foreign extraterritorial measures; neither implements the other.

Pillar

Security investigations

Investigation procedures under State Council Order No. 834 and the Foreign Trade Law.

Umbrella

Other administrative measures

Ordinary regulatory powers; no instrument named as providing for the measure.

Governing instrument
Ordinary regulatory powers No instrument named as providing for the measure Each decision states its own basis, or none.
Orientation

How to read this map

The family grouping is this site's arrangement for reading; every connector follows a relationship stated in the cited documents.

Read across

Four pillars and one umbrella

Each pillar family rests on an instrument that expressly provides for its mechanisms. The fifth column gathers measures taken under ordinary regulatory powers, where the operative document names no instrument as providing for the measure.

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From the map to the record

Select any node to open its record and cited sources. The Legal Framework view shows each mechanism's complete legal pathway, including the framework laws above its governing instrument, and the Laws & Regulations library lists every instrument by rank.

All mechanisms

Each profile states, in the official documents' own terms, when the mechanism applies, how it proceeds and what it has produced.