Announcement
05 Aug 2026
In August 2026, the Ministry of Commerce of China announced the initiation of a national security investigation into imported printing and copying office equipment equipped with foreign system software.
Source
Number of interventions
1
0 certainly harmful
1 likely harmful
0 liberalising
Implementation date
No implementation date
Revocation date:
No revocation date
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