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The administrative rules are contained in the Procedures for the Administration of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, promulgated by Decree No. 7 of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government on 29 September 2013. The Procedures established the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone Administrative Committee to specifically carry out reforms in the CSPFTZ, and undertake overall management and coordination of the relevant administrative affairs in the zone. The Administrative Committee, more specifically, has responsibility for: (…) greening and city appearance, environmental protection, (…)

A number of imported and domestically-produced goods are also subject to the consumption (excise) tax. Consumption tax in China is levied on different categories of products: products that could be harmful to health, social order and the environment (such as tobacco, alcohol, and fireworks); luxury goods (jewellery and cosmetics); and high-energy consumption and high-end products (passenger cars and motorcycles), and non-renewable and non-replaceable petroleum products (such as gasoline and diesel oil). (…)

Restricted goods are administered through non-automatic licences and/or quotas. Import restrictions are maintained because of public security and welfare, and to protect exhaustible natural resources. (…)

(…) In addition, since 1 October 2012, in order to improve energy efficiency and to protect the environment China has banned imports of incandescent lighting.

(…) "Mandatory" standards refer usually to: medicines, food, veterinary drugs, and pesticides; labour and transportation safety; construction; environmental emissions; and technical terms (Table 3.6). The code of a mandatory national standard starts with the letters "GB". The code of a mandatory local standard starts with "DB" and the code of the Province (e.g. Shanxi Province, mandatory local standard code: DB14/).

(…) The majority of the technical regulations notified were applied to regulate the market and to protect human health, safety and the environment. (…)

There is an additional catalogue, the Catalogue of Import Commodities Subject to Safety and Quality Permits, that stipulates the general standards for goods that are highly sensitive in terms of safety, sanitation and environmental protection. (…)

The State may restrict or forbid the exportation of any product to: maintain national security and public morality; protect human, animal and plant health; protect the environment; protect exhaustible natural resources that are in short supply or require "effective protection"; and organize "export business management"; or under any other circumstance as provided for in any law or administrative regulation. (…)

(…) Export prohibitions applied, inter alia, to bones, ivory, natural sands (HS Chapter 25) asbestos, halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons, organic chemicals (HS Chapter 29), unprocessed wood and some platinum products. (…)

(…) In addition to the general Catalogue, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the "Catalogue of Imported Wastes Management", also of 2009, which lists, inter alia, the solid wastes that cannot be imported into China.