Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China is a Chinese government ministry responsible for formulating and implementing national policies on international trade, foreign investment, and domestic commerce and consumption. Its functions include trade negotiations, trade remedies and anti-dumping investigations, foreign investment regulation, and market circulation policy.www.mofcom.gov.cn
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Nov 4, 2026
Wen JiHOST
China's services trade has maintained steady growth in the first nine months of 2026, with total imports and exports reaching nearly 5.77 trillion yuan, up 8.5% year-on-year.
Wen JiHOST
According to the Chinese Commerce Ministry, exports rose 14.8% to more than 2.2 trillion yuan, while imports increased 4.8% to nearly 3.5 trillion yuan.
Wen JiHOST
The services trade deficit narrowed by 132.7 billion yuan from a year earlier.
Wen JiHOST
Transport services recorded the fastest growth, with trade volume surging 33.9%.
speaker_0HOST
Multiple reports and Iranian commentary continue to suggest that Iran and the U.S. are reviewing a mediator proposal.
speaker_0HOST
On trade, China's MOFCOM said Vice Minister Li met with a U.S. agricultural trade delegation, with both sides exchanging views on China-U.S. economic and trade relations and agricultural trade cooperation.
speaker_0HOST
As for price action, European bourses, including the stock's 600, are down 0.3%, as they reverse Monday's gains, pressured by disappointing earnings from Apple and Palantir.
speaker_0HOST
In Asia-Pac, stocks traded mixed, following a tech rut in the US.
Tian YuHOST
It also adds five new chapters on standards and conformity assessment cooperation, competition policy, e-commerce, global supply chains, and environment and trade.
Tian YuHOST
The Chinese Commerce Ministry says the two sides have also agreed on provisions for future negotiations on negative lists for trade in services and investment.
Tian YuHOST
The Canton Fair in Guangzhou is highlighting AI and new technology products that empower traditional industries.
Tian YuHOST
A range of smart and low-carbon products are on display during the third phase to meet diverse global demands for health, quality and personalized shopping.
Pat SteeleNARRATOR
Beans are trading, but other commodities are not.
Pat SteeleNARRATOR
The U.S. Department of Agriculture referred questions about the prorating schedule to the U.S. To the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the USTR, the White House, and China's Ministry of Commerce did not respond to requests for comment.
Pat SteeleNARRATOR
Next subsection is Weak Demand, Global Competition, Cloud U.S. Exports.
Pat SteeleNARRATOR
Even if buying picks up, weak Chinese demand and stiff competition make the target difficult to meet unless Beijing orders state-owned buyers into action, analysts said.
Tian YuHOST
It also adds five new chapters on standards and conformity assessment cooperation, competition policy, e-commerce, global supply chains, and environment and trade.
Tian YuHOST
The Chinese Commerce Ministry says the two sides have also agreed on provisions for future negotiations on negative lists for trade in services and investment.
Tian YuHOST
The Canton Fair in Guangzhou is highlighting AI and new technology products that empower traditional industries.
Tian YuHOST
A range of smart and low-carbon products are on display during the third phase to meet diverse global demands for health, quality, and personalized shopping.
Greg AllenHOST
So this could be assigning ownership of a technology abroad, so like selling intellectual property, licensing the domestic technology for use abroad, a change in who owns it, so a foreign entity becoming an owner or actual controller of the company.
Greg AllenHOST
And then literally, I love this later, anything else MOFCOM later specifies, MOFCOM being the relevant ministry in the Chinese government.
Greg AllenHOST
So I think the third one is perhaps worth starting about.
Greg AllenHOST
Manus was a notable AI agent startup in China that had attracted a lot of attention as a noteworthy startup.
Zhou MiGUEST
In my understanding that when we're trying to use these regulations to different kinds of scenarios or activities, we need to look at why and how it happened.
Zhou MiGUEST
So from this regulation, there are mainly something to do with MOFCOM.
Zhou MiGUEST
So MOFCOM is one of the ministries who are responsible for the international trade and economic corporations and a lot of investment issues.
Zhou MiGUEST
So we do have the responsibility to cover the different possible enterprises or stakeholders.
Zhou MiGUEST
So maybe the enterprises who are doing the business in other countries, but I hope that they do have some possible relations with the Chinese market and that is quite possible or potential for them to do the business.
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Warwick PowellGUEST
From an outside perspective, I think that there is always at first a precaution or a cautious view about how new laws are to be applied.
Warwick PowellGUEST
And only time enables any sense of caution or concern or risk.
Warwick PowellGUEST
to be progressively mitigated the challenge here with the implementation of these laws is to ensure that their application is consistent is reasonable actually delivers the certainty actually that market actors look for as opposed to creating an environment of capricious uncertainty And that's going to be the test for how MOFCOM ultimately administers these regulations.
Steve OrlinsHOST
us who you did see and who you were not allowed to see.
Randall SchriverGUEST
We had a range of government interlocutors that you would... probably predict Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MOFCOM, People's Liberation Army, Office of International Military Cooperation.
Randall SchriverGUEST
So I would say sort of a normal lineup for Beijing.
Randall SchriverGUEST
But we also visited Shanghai and Hangzhou and had a, I would say a little bit more of a mixed bag there in Hangzhou.
speaker_0HOST
Beijing described the deal in general terms.
speaker_0HOST
On September 28, the head of the Chinese Commerce Ministry's America's Department said both sides had agreed to extend the Kuala Lumpur arrangement to Jan. 10, 2027, while continuing to seek a lasting solution, according to the state news agency's account.
speaker_0HOST
The statement refers to tariff and non-tariff measures in general.
speaker_0HOST
It does not name export controls or rare earths.
Lauren Hawker ZaferHOST
Now, Beijing have obviously hit back fast.
Lauren Hawker ZaferHOST
The Chinese Commerce Ministry said it firmly opposes the sanctions and accused the US of hyping up trade secret claims to actually smear Chinese companies.
Lauren Hawker ZaferHOST
It demanded that the deep-seek ban be revoked and warned it would take all necessary measures without saying what.
Lauren Hawker ZaferHOST
Now, meanwhile, Washington's own rulebook for testing frontier AI, it's actually still under wraps.
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