These included: the Ministry of Culture, the State Economic and Trade Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Industry and IT, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the General Administration of Customs and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.

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To operate in China, the Council itself must provide documents from America's State Department, the Chinese Embassy in America, the cities of Washington and Shanghai, the local tax authorities and the local branch of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.

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Some fuss has been made over numbers reported to the Chinese State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC).

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They then passed his intel along to China's Administration for Industry and Commerce, which coordinated the seizure with local police.

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The State Administration for Industry and Commerce said on Thursday that it would tighten oversight of Apple and other specified electronics companies.

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Fu Shuangjian, deputy director of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, said at a press conference on April 24 that Proview Technology is still the owner of the iPad trademark.

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Although the Clinton administration favors allowing the industry to regulate itself, agencies such as the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission have been discussing how to encourage privacy protection and lawmakers have talked about enacting laws that would make Web sites liable for privacy breaches on their sites.

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Indeed, the Banking Committee's proposed "carve-out" language does not represent a unified Administration position at all, but rather merely language desired by industry and some in the Department of Commerce.

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