Hong Kong

Eurasian Economic Union (EUU) wants free trade zone with Hong Kong

The Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union is interested in expanding east and sign a free trade agreement with Hong Kong, according to Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich.

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5 years ago

January 26, 2016

Boris Sullivan

The Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union is interested in expanding east and sign a free trade agreement with Hong Kong, according to Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich.

“We recently concluded the free trade zone agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union and Vietnam and are currently negotiating with Israel. We are ready to discuss this issue with Hong Kong,”

said Dvorkovich, speaking at the Asia Financial Forum in Hong Kong.

The EEU is a trade bloc established in 2015 on the basis of the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. It currently has five members: Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, while Tajikistan is a prospective member.

Western sanctions have encouraged Russia to work more actively with Asian partners. In May last year, the EEU and Vietnam signed a free trade zone agreement. It became the first free trade zone between the trade bloc and a third party. According to the documents prepared for the signing ceremony, the free trade zone is going to save exporters from the EEU about $40-60 million in the first year of operation.

Source: Russia wants free trade zone with Hong Kong — RT Business

China

Hong Kong’s US-Bound Exports to be Labeled ‘Made in China’

Goods produced in Hong Kong and exported to the US must be “marked to indicate that their origin is China”, according to a notice put out by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on August 11, 2020.

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4 months ago

September 11, 2020

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This ‘Made in China’ labeling requirement on Hong Kong products was originally to take effect on September 25. To give Hong Kong exporters more breathing room to switch the labels, the US CBP has extended the enforcement date by 45 days, to November 9.

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China

Hong Kong : no journalist in the world is free from China’s violent retribution

The new national security legislation China is imposing on Hong Kong could be used not only against journalists operating in Asia’s main financial hub, but against every journalist in the world says RSF

Published

7 months ago

July 3, 2020

Boris Sullivan

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges democracies to do everything in their power to compel Beijing to withdraw the law that allows it to charge any journalist writing on Hong Kong of endangering national security, an accusation that could result in life imprisonment or even the death penalty if tried in China.

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Hong Kong

National security law for Hong Kong risks turning city into police state

China’s national security law for Hong Kong will put everybody in the city at risk of arbitrary detention and unfair trial unless underpinned by measures to guarantee protection of human rights, Amnesty International said today