China details cost calculations for low-price probes in key industrial sectors
By MLex Staff ( September 11, 2026, 06:39 GMT | Insight) -- China’s National Development and Reform Commission and State Administration for Market Regulation on Thursday released rules detailing how regulators should calculate costs when investigating suspected disorderly low-price competition in key industrial sectors. The methodology specifies the use of company-specific costs, industry-average benchmarks and capacity-utilization factors, building on a tiered enforcement framework introduced last year.Chinese manufacturers in key industrial sectors face more defined scrutiny of low-price sales, with regulators setting out detailed rules for calculating production costs in suspected “disorderly” pricing cases....
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