Hong Kong

CEPA (the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement) is a free trade agreement, signed in 2003, that lets Hong Kong-registered companies export qualifying goods into Mainland China at …

China’s Foreign Investment Negative List is the government catalogue, jointly maintained by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), that names the industries where …

Hong Kong’s offshore profits tax exemption allows a company to pay 0% profits tax on income that genuinely arises outside Hong Kong, under a territorial tax system set out in …

A company secretary is a mandatory statutory officer every Hong Kong company must appoint under Section 474 of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622), responsible for keeping the company’s filings, registers, …

Readiness to expand into Hong Kong is less about company size and more about whether ten specific, checkable conditions are already true for your business: demand, cash flow, structure fit, …

Hong Kong’s company naming rules are the set of restrictions under the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) that decide whether the Companies Registry will accept your proposed company name, and they …

A Hong Kong private limited company is a locally incorporated legal entity limited by shares, governed by the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622), that can be 100 percent foreign-owned with no …

Registering a company in Hong Kong from abroad is the process of incorporating a Hong Kong Limited Company through the Companies Registry’s e-Registry portal without being physically present in the …

Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL) is legislation imposed by Beijing in June 2020 that criminalizes secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces, later supplemented by the 2024 Safeguarding …

A Hong Kong limited company is a private company incorporated under the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) that can be 100 percent foreign owned, taxed only on profits sourced in Hong …