Ministry of Commerce
A constituent department of China's State Council responsible for domestic and foreign trade, international economic cooperation, and export control affairs.
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The Ministry of Commerce is revising the export catalog, with 23 AI-related items to be controlled, but technologies that have already been open-sourced or published in papers will not be included in the controls; DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed registration, and both open-sourcing and overseas licensing have gone through.
The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology issued Announcement No. 48 of 2026, publicly soliciting comments on the revision of China's Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export.
Situations in which enterprises use restricted-category large models to provide API calls, web interaction, SaaS applications, on-device deployment, and the like to external parties are included within the scope of large-model technology export management.
The AI safety bill proposed by Anthropic effectively centralizes the authority to shut down AI models in the Department of Commerce.
The draft proposes 14 prohibited export technologies and 26 restricted export technologies, covering the three fields of AI, biomedicine, and solar energy.
China's Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology jointly released a draft revision of the Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export, proposing to add 40 technologies, of which 23 are directly related to artificial intelligence.
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The Ministry of Commerce is revising the export catalog, with 23 AI-related items to be controlled, but technologies that have already been open-sourced or published in papers will not be included in the controls; DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed registration, and both open-sourcing and overseas licensing have gone through.
50%UnverifiedSituations in which enterprises use restricted-category large models to provide API calls, web interaction, SaaS applications, on-device deployment, and the like to external parties are included within the scope of large-model technology export management.
50%UnverifiedThe AI safety bill proposed by Anthropic effectively centralizes the authority to shut down AI models in the Department of Commerce.
50%UnverifiedThe draft proposes 14 prohibited export technologies and 26 restricted export technologies, covering the three fields of AI, biomedicine, and solar energy.
50%Partially VerifiedChina's Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology jointly released a draft revision of the Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export, proposing to add 40 technologies, of which 23 are directly related to artificial intelligence.
80%UnverifiedThe Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology issued Announcement No. 48 of 2026, publicly soliciting comments on the revision of China's Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export.
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