China’s Antimonopoly Law: Status Quo and Outlook

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Michael Han, Jessica Su, Aug 11, 2008

As the pillar of Chinese competition law and policy, the Antimonopoly Law of the People’s Republic of China has been on the legislative agenda since 1994. The AML was eventually enacted on August 30, 2007 and entered into force on August 1, 2008. A range of explicit and implicit legal and socio-political factors in the context of China’s transition from a planning economy to a mark