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Are you doing business in China, or considering it? China’s chemical industry is booming, its production chain swelling with increasingly novel substances. To cope with the situation, Chinese governmental agencies have issued or amended a growing number of regulations that dramatically shape the local business environment.

What do China's new chemical regulations mean to you? Quickly get the facts by joining DCAT and ICIS Chemical Business Americas for a special introduction by an expert the field.

Jeffrey Li, an associate in McKenna Long & Aldridge's Washington, DC, office and, will explain and take your questions on:

• The Regulations on the Environmental Administration of New Chemical Substances, including the development of an existing chemical inventory list and the data requirements for new chemical substance notification
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  The Regulations for Environmental Management on the First Import of Chemicals and the Import and Export of Toxic Chemicals
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  The Regulations on the Control Over Safety of Dangerous Chemicals, which regulate what is required to build a chemical facility or to import, store, sell, distribute and transport chemical products in China.

• Related laws and regulations.

Purchasing professionals, sales and marketing personnel, and senior executives doing business in China will benefit from this seminar.

The registration fee for DCAT member company representatives is $49.  The non-member fee for attendance is $109.  Registration is available online only.  Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis. 

DCAT and ICIS are pleased to have Jeffrey Li, Esq. as our expert speaker for this program.

Mr. Li is an associate in McKenna Long & Aldridge's Washington, DC office. A native of Shanghai, China, he holds a law degree from the University of Shanghai Law School and is a member of the National Bar of China.

After completing his law degree, he worked for three years as in-house counsel at China National Chemicals Import & Export Corp Shanghai where he gained legal experience in international trade and antidumping cases. He then worked three years at Praxair China, a subsidiary of a U.S. Fortune 500 company, also in Shanghai, where his experience included foreign investment, distribution and taxation in China.

Mr. Li counsels U.S. and Chinese companies in the chemical, food and drug, and pesticide requirements in the U.S. and China. As well, he assists companies in the fields of U.S.-China trade and commercial transactions between the two countries. He clerked for the Honorable Robert Fairchild in Lawrence, Kansas, and the Honorable Lunyin Yan in Shanghai, China.

Mr. Li earned his LLM from Northwestern in 2002 and his JD from the University of Kansas in 2004.