Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国商务部)

The Ministry's major tasks are to formulate strategies, guidelines and policies of developing domestic and foreign trade and international economic cooperation, advance the structural readjustment of distribution industries, lead the coordination work for rectifying and standardizing market economy order, work out measures for the regulation of import and export commodities and processing trade, compile catalogues of import and export commodities and technologies, push forward the establishment of foreign trade standardization system, handle major issues in economic and trade relationships with foreign parties, give general guidance to nationwide efforts in foreign investment, organize and coordinate the work pertaining to antidumping, countervailing, safeguard measures and other issues related to fair trade for import and export.

商务部的主要职能有：拟订国内外贸易和国际经济合作的发展战略、政策，负责推进流通产业结构调整，协调整顿和规范市场经济秩序，制定进出口商品、加工贸易管理办法和进出口管理商品、技术目录，推进进出口贸易标准化工作，对外经济贸易协调工作，宏观指导全国外商投资工作，组织协调反倾销、反补贴、保障措施及其他与进出口公平贸易相关工作的责任。