Automatic Licensing
A type of license in China's export control system under which an exporter obtains export permission simply by filing a registration, without case-by-case approval. It preserves regulatory visibility at the procedural level while imposing no substantive threshold.
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For technologies already open-sourced or published in papers, the draft for comments provides for automatic licensing, essentially achieving filing upon submission.
Open-source technologies that have already entered the public domain are outside the scope of control; for open-source AI versions not yet released, the Ministry of Commerce proposes granting automatic licensing, achieving 'report and export immediately'.
The draft mentions that actions such as Chinese companies building their own overseas computing centers are eligible for simplified automatic licensing.
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For technologies already open-sourced or published in papers, the draft for comments provides for automatic licensing, essentially achieving filing upon submission.
50%UnverifiedOpen-source technologies that have already entered the public domain are outside the scope of control; for open-source AI versions not yet released, the Ministry of Commerce proposes granting automatic licensing, achieving 'report and export immediately'.
50%UnverifiedThe draft mentions that actions such as Chinese companies building their own overseas computing centers are eligible for simplified automatic licensing.
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