Chinese toughen export licence regulations
January 2008 – Hong Kong, PRC Chinese authorities have increased the number of product categories that require export licences.Seven new product categories, including stationery, have been added to the list, following the much-publicised product recalls last year, according to Mr.Li Qing-xiang, the deputy director general of the Guangdong Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, who was speaking at a seminar at the Hong Kong Stationery Show.He also specified that the licences now have to be renewed every three years, as opposed to every five years previously.