The newest issue of North Korea’s Foreign Trade magazine revealed that the country revised its Foreign Trade Law at the end of March 2020, shortly after implementing a wide-ranging lockdown due to COVID-19.

The Foreign Trade Law lays down the general framework of government control over trade with the outside world, ranging from required paperwork and price setting to conditions for a ban and restriction on trade.

The magazine only published an English translation of the first half of the new law in June of this year, but several changes point to a further tightening