China is quietly developing government procurement rules of origin, a move that could make the current concern about the delay but finalized, government procurement laws and regulations promulgated by the software becomes meaningless.
Legislative spirit of the Government Procurement Law is to protect their own manufacturers, in 2002 introduced the "Government Procurement Law" and the result is not entirely satisfactory.Very tender and domestic Chinese software companies is the "Government Procurement Law" as the most important chance of survival.Therefore, each government procurement of software have become the IT industry's most important events of note.
According to legal sources, in order to promote China's "Government Procurement Law" effective implementation of the joint Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Information Industry of China is developing the "software the Government Procurement Law", to become examples of government procurement.
But this law relates to the Sino-US trade negotiations since many factors such as delay in launch.Microsoft this year to the Board by the Beijing municipal government software procurement event caused an uproar, the industry shall be the focus of debate whether Microsoft's software products in the end the problem of local products.
Currently guiding China's government procurement market, introduced in 2002's "The People's Republic of China Government Procurement Law,"
In the "Government Procurement Law" stipulated in Article X: "The term domestic goods, works and services to define, in accordance with relevant State Council regulations."
However, the relevant provisions of the State Council is blank, therefore, in the end how to define domestic goods is still legal difficulties.
According to report, the Chinese government asked the leadership of the Chinese New Year set up a working group dedicated to the development of government procurement, "What is local" problem, that is, rules of origin.It is reported that the news of the Working Group members introduced to the products of all industries the definition of domestic products, software products naturally included.
In the "Software Government Procurement Law" draft stipulates that domestic software development costs in mainland China should not be less than 50% of the total development costs.
Currently the Ministry of Finance Ministry of Information Industry also is developing guidance to the joint procurement of software "software the Government Procurement Law", working groups will have difficulty in replacing the "software the Government Procurement Law" mean? The people that are two different things, he onlyexplained that one of the elements software procurement regulations is the definition of the definition of their software.(END)
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The original intent of origin is the source of origin of: the origin of goods so that the original source of goods or products, that products were manufactured.The origin of import and export commodities is a commodity of international trade flow of goods into the source of the goods produced, manufacture, production or processing to produce real change.
Rules of origin, is the countries and regions in order to determine the country or region of origin of goods taken by the laws, regulations and executive orders of general application.In international trade, the origin of goods plays an important role.Origin of the goods actually refers to the production of a product of economic citizenship.The issue of export certificates of origin is the national implementation of import and export control and a means of quota management, but also customs tariff reduction with the approved documents.The aim is thus to determine the import and export of goods to be enjoyed in the treatment.As the rules of origin between the members involved in the GATT MFN tariff treatment, national treatment, the number of removal of quantitative restrictions and trade quotas, anti-dumping and countervailing measures, selective safeguards, the development of Members in the GSPrelationship, thus causing the close attention of all Parties.
As the world and the region's foreign trade in accordance with national needs and economic interests of the established rules of origin, each very different, adding to the "GATT 1947" supplement and amendment of rules of origin task.In order to facilitate international trade, rules of origin of the Fa Zhan, improve the international trade environment, Zai GATT Uruguay Round negotiations, the Da Cheng Liao, "Agreement on Rules", aimed at establishing a fair, transparent, predictable, maneuverable,World unified rules of origin.