China: Proposed Amendments to E-Commerce Law

China’s market regulatory agency, the State Administration of Market Regulation (SAMR), proposed amendments to the existing e-commerce law that would impose harsher penalties on e-commerce platform operators who fail to appropriately respond to intellectual property protection violations through their platforms. This report provides summaries and an unofficial translation of the proposed amendments to Articles 43 and 84. At the time of publication of this report, there were no additional proposed amendments.