The Legal Regime of Pilot Zones of Transborder Electronic Trade in the PRC

Abstract

China demonstrates significant progress in developing cross-border e-commerce, as well as involving SMEs into it. For this purpose, the PRC created pilot zones of cross-border e-commerce. Its residents enjoy measures of support. This article analyzes the legislation of the PRC, provincial and municipal governments regarding the promotion of cross-border e-commerce. It is concluded that the central government determines only strategic goals, while the development plans for a particular pilot zone are formulated at the provincial and municipal levels, while local governments determine an amount of funding and the procedure for providing support measures. The author systematizes and describes the support measures that are provided to residents of the pilot zones of crossborder e-commerce. It is concluded that for the development of e-commerce, the Russian Government should not only implement an experiment on the creation of bonded warehouses, but also apply the experience of the PRC in supporting e-commerce exports.