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China

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In force now

  • China national ETS (power, steel, cement, aluminium)carbon compliancesince 2024-05-01Date is the application of the Interim Regulations on Carbon Emissions Trading Management (State Council Order 775), which have applied since 1 May 2024 under Art. 33. The steel, cement and aluminium smelting sectors were brought into the market by MEE notice 环气候〔2025〕23号, signed 20 March 2025, whose work plan states 相应新增重点排放单位约1500家 — roughly 1,500 additional key emitting units, adding about 3bn tCO2e of covered emissions. Trading began before the Regulations, on a date the sourced record does not carry. The 26,000 tCO2e criterion is not in Order 775; it is cited in the threshold to the instruments that state it, the second being https://www.mee.gov.cn/xxgk2018/xxgk/xxgk03/202503/t20250326_1104736.htmlsourceexplainer
  • EU CBAM definitive phase (exports to the EU)tradesince 2026-01-01The first CBAM declaration and certificate surrender are due by 30 September 2027 for goods imported in 2026.sourceexplainer

Coming

  • EU Deforestation Regulation (exports to the EU)from 2026-12-30Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 sets 30 December 2026 for operators and traders generally (Art. 38(2)). By Art. 38(3) the later date of 30 June 2027 applies only to operators that are natural persons or micro or small undertakings within the meaning of Art. 3(1) or Art. 3(2), first subparagraph, of Directive 2013/34/EU and that were established as such by 31 December 2024, and it does not apply at all to products covered by the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 995/2010. Separately, Art. 4a gives "micro or small primary operators" as defined in Art. 2(15a) a one-time simplified declaration in place of the full due diligence statement; that is a different population from the one Art. 38(3) defers. Deforestation-free means produced on land not subject to deforestation after 31 December 2020 (Art. 2(13)). The Regulation sets no volume or value de minimis.sourceexplainer

Market intelligence

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Organisations in China

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