Chinese B2B e-commerce company Alibaba has announced that it has set up a partnership with Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute to jointly promote the e-commerce business among small and medium-sized enterprises in Macau.

According to the statistics from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's mobile phone output decreased by 11.2% year-on-year in the first two months of 2009 and its mobile phone exports decreased by 17.2% during the same period, the largest decline over the past few years.

According to Jack Ma, CEO of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, to help attract small companies in North America to export more goods to China, the company is now seeking cooperative partners in the United States and it has started discussions with companies such as Google, eBay, Yahoo, and Microsoft.

According to the BBC, the Indian government has announced that they would allow imports of Chinese toys that have been certified by global safety organizations.

According to a directive from the Beijing Drug Administration, starting from June 2010, both Chinese-made and imported cosmetics should be marked with all their ingredients and products that fail to meet the requirement will be suspended from the Chinese market.

China-based webshops will be able to sell goods on eBay directly to export customers using services provided by MyStarU.com subsidiary, Panyu M&M Import Export Company.

By a 6-0 vote, the US International Trade Commission recently announced its affirmative decision on the petition filed by US producers of laminated woven polypropylene sacks claiming that China is involved in dumping and subsidizing exports of these products.

South Korea's Dongbu HiTek is showcasing its latest VGA, 1.3 and 2.0 megapixel CMOS Image Sensor chips and camera phone modules at the International IC China trade show, which opens in Shenzhen this week.

Green Energy Resources has signed a US$15 million deal for sale of woodchips to companies in China.

Pu Changcheng, the vice-director of China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said in a State Council Information Office press conference that the special examination of product quality and food safety has been completed and all the goals have been achieved.