The “Agreement on Trade and Investment in Services between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of Belarus” was signed on August 22, 2024, and the two sides have completed separate domestic approval procedures. The Agreement will officially enter into force on January 1, 2026. According to the Agreement, China and Belarus have achieved a high level of mutual openness in the fields of trade in services and investment. In terms of trade in services, the two sides used a positive list approach to make openness commitments and specifically formulated facilitation rules for seven important service industries, including telecommunications, transportation and logistics, finance, postal and express delivery, health, tourism and travel, and computers. On the investment side, the two sides adopted the “pre-entry national treatment plus negative list model” to make a high level of openness to non-service investment, and included comprehensive and high-level investment protection rules. In addition, the Agreement also incorporates rules in the fields of temporary movement of natural persons, e-commerce, intellectual property rights, competition, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, and dispute resolution.

The “Agreement on Trade and Investment in Services between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of Belarus” was signed on August 22, 2024, and the two sides have completed separate domestic approval procedures. The Agreement will officially enter into force on January 1, 2026. According to the Agreement, China and Belarus have achieved a high level of mutual openness in the fields of trade in services and investment. In terms of trade in services, the two sides used a positive list approach to make openness commitments and specifically formulated facilitation rules for seven important service industries, including telecommunications, transportation and logistics, finance, postal and express delivery, health, tourism and travel, and computers. On the investment side, the two sides adopted the “pre-entry national treatment plus negative list model” to make a high level of openness to non-service investment, and included comprehensive and high-level investment protection rules. In addition, the Agreement also incorporates rules in the fields of temporary movement of natural persons, e-commerce, intellectual property rights, competition, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, and dispute resolution.