China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48
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China's commerce and science ministries issued Announcement No. 48 on October 16, 2026, proposing 40 additions to the export-restriction catalogue, 23 of them in AI, with comments open until November 15. An interim registration requirement applies now. Per the Cloud Security Alliance's summary, restricted model weights meet any one of three tests: 10^26 training FLOPs, 2 trillion parameters, or a global top-10 ranking. API and SaaS use is outside the rules, while local deployment abroad is covered. The summary's figures were not independently verified, and the draft may change.