China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) jointly released, on September 26, 2008, the revised China Export-prohibited and Export-restricted Technology Catalogue (Catalogue), which will take effect beginning on November 1, 2008.
The Catalogue covers such industries as the agriculture, coal exploitation, raw chemical material and chemical product manufacture, pharmaceutics manufacture, telecommunication facility, computer and other electronic equipment manufacture and ect. 33 export-prohibited technologies and 117 export-restricted technologies are involved in total.
Under the Foreign Trade Law and the Provisions for the Administration of Technology Imports and Exports, export-prohibited technologies involved in the Catalogue must not be exported, and the licensing administration