Draft rule set to limit packaging

Products with more than three layers of packaging or those that occupy less than 45 percent of package space will be banned if a draft regulation is passed as law.

Such products can neither be produced nor sold in the country, says the draft, put up for public hearing yesterday.

The packaging cost should not exceed 15 percent of the product's price, says the draft, prepared jointly by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) and the National Development and Reform Commission, the nation's highest planning body.