When Do China’s Export Control Violations Become Criminal Cases?
Fuji Electric Group employee arrest · boundary between administrative and criminal enforcement
TRADE ENFORCEMENT INTELLIGENCE
Look beyond the rules. Watch enforcement.
How are China’s export controls actually enforced in practice?
WTS Institute connects China Customs enforcement cases, judicial records, corporate information, government procurement and trade data to show how policy is translated into real-world enforcement.
Policy tells you the intent.Law defines the authority.Enforcement reveals the reality.
A legal text tells you what authorities are allowed to do. It does not tell you which agencies act, against which companies or goods, under what legal theories, or with what outcomes. When analysis stops at the rules, practical risk can be missed or misread.
Selected Insight
Research Note · Free
China’s Dual-Use Export Controls: How Enforcement Works in Practice
670 customs enforcement cases · judicial records · inspection capacity
Read the Research Note →Japan Edition 2026
China’s Dual-Use Export Controls: A Case-Level Analysis of Customs Enforcement on Japan-Bound Trade
20 Enforcement Cases, Company Attributes and Source-Level Evidence
View research →Rare Earths
China’s Rare Earth Export Controls: A Case-Level Analysis of Customs Enforcement
139 Cases Across Licensing, Penalties, Inspection Capacity and Destinations
View research →Dataset
Structured Intelligence Data for Enforcement, Companies & Trade
Official customs enforcement records, corporate attributes, ownership structures, regulatory documents and related trade evidence are normalized into comparable case-level datasets. Built for verification, cross-case analysis, compliance research and deeper institutional use.
Explore data →Method
Primary-source research, structured for comparison.
We collect original public records from customs authorities, regulators, courts, procurement systems and corporate sources, then verify the provenance and evidentiary status of each record.
Fragmented information is normalized into comparable case-level data so that enforcement decisions, companies, products, destinations and legal grounds can be examined across cases rather than as isolated documents.
We connect policy, enforcement, corporate and trade evidence while keeping confirmed facts, analytical classifications and unknowns distinct. The aim is not to claim more than the evidence allows, but to make the evidence more usable.