The Amendment of China’s Anti-monopoly Law

On June 24, 2022, China’s legislature enacted the revision of the Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”), the country’s main antitrust statute.  The revised AML entered into force on August 1, 2022. In this paper, we examine a number of key takeaways from the AML revision – ranging from an expansion of the cartel prohibition; a potential liberalization in the resale price maintenance area; a number of rule tweaks for platform operators; minor changes to the AML’s “administrative monopoly�