TREE NEWS update: China’s market regulator released a draft revision of its antitrust compliance guidelines for companies operating overseas and opened it to public comment. The update adds overseas enforcement agencies’ focus on the digital economy across monopoly agreement, abuse of dominance and merger control chapters, and sets out the latest merger filing thresholds in the EU, US and Germany. It also flags foreign investment security reviews, foreign subsidy reviews and private civil antitrust litigation in major jurisdictions.
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The draft signals that Beijing wants Chinese firms to treat foreign competition rules as a compliance discipline rather than an afterthought, extending guidance beyond merger thresholds into digital-economy enforcement, subsidy screening and private litigation risk. That matters most for platform and outbound-investment names already exposed to multiple regulators at once. Whether the final version keeps the digital-economy emphasis and how broadly firms treat the comment window as a channel to shape the text are the open questions.
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