Customs and Excise Department - The Government of the HKSAR

 Latest update of Hong Kong Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Programme. You may access the Customs and Excise website for more information.  Hong Kong Customs Participated in the 26/27th SAFE Working Group Meeting Organized by the World Customs Organization13 April 2022 Officers from the Office of Trade Relations and Public Communication (OTPC) of the Customs and Excise Department attended the 26/27th SAFE Working Group (SWG) Meeting held by the World Customs Organization (WCO) from 11 to 13 April 2022 to review AEO international standards.  Under the pandemic, the SWG Meeting was conducted virtually and participated by 170 delegates representing Customs administrations, the private sectors and international organizations concerned. Among others, the SWG Meeting was responsible for developing the two-year work plan and kicking start the new round of review for the SAFE Framework of Standards (FoS), which would be conducted at every 3-year cycle.  OTPC will continue to actively engage in essential international discussions to keep abreast of the global development of the AEO Programme and Mutual Recognition Arrangements with a view to providing updated information and more facilitative measures to stakeholders in the global supply chain.   OTPC officers attended the 26/27th SAFE Working Group Meeting (virtual meeting) organized by the WCO between 11 and 13 April 2022.     

Latest Update of HKAEO Programme

Taiwan Toy & Children's Article Manufacturers Association

Reacting to an ever-changing global economic environment, the Taiwan Toy &amp; Children's Article Manufacturers' Association actively promotes business for its member manufacturers and helps them to face market challenges. Starting in 1967, when called the Taiwan Toy Manufacturers&rsquo; Association, this group helped Taiwan's industries to develop a better vision to expand their assistance to children&rsquo;s products manufacturers. Its name change came in 2004.
 
  Professional service. 
  Quick response. 
 

Trade Service

Accolade IP Ltd

Design patent registration service:
&nbsp; 	 Accolade provides global design registration services in worldwide, and deals with various issues for our clients in the course of design registration.  &nbsp;
What is design patent?
&nbsp; 	 A design refers to the new or original features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament that are applied to an article. A design must be distinctive and give an article a unique appearance. 	 Designs registered protect the visible features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article, by any industrial process, which appeal to the eye. 	 Designs do not protect the functionality or operation of products. Protection for the way in which a product works may be available under patent law.  &nbsp;
Benefits of registration of a design patent: 	 A registered design can become a valuable business asset that can be bought, sold, transferred or licensed like any other property. Registration can make a design searchable by the public who may be potential licensees, stockists, investors or customers. A registered design can add value to a product and increase market awareness of your business, as the design is often what makes it attractive to the customers. 	 Registration provides a stronger protection for your design and legal action can be taken if someone copies your design without your permission. This legal protection gives you the exclusive trade right to that design for a certain period of up to many years and improves the market competitiveness of your business.  &nbsp;
Design patent classification: 	 The 8th edition of the International Design Classification (IDC), issued by the World Intellectual Property Organization, classifies designs into 32 classes and 223 sub-classes.  &nbsp;
Our services include: 	 To apply for international design registration. 	 To conduct design search and evaluation. 	 To give advice on design registration. 	 To file design application. 	 To deal with the issues relating to the review, rejection, defense, revocation, opposition and dispute of design. 	 To collect the certificate of design registration on behalf of the applicant.  &nbsp;
Materials to be provided: 	 A short descriptive title (not trade names) for the article or articles. 	 Presentations of your design. Representations are line drawings or pictures showing different views of the article or articles, including perspective, front, back, left, right, top and bottom views. 	 A brief statement of novelty focusing on any non-functional and visual features of the design. 	 A copy of the Certificate of Incorporation or Business Registration Certificate or anything of similar nature which shows the name and address of the applicant. 	 A priority document when priority is claimed. The document can be filed within 3 months after the filing date of the application. 	 Power of Attorney (POA) letter as required by some countries/regions. 	 We offer transparent fee schedule for our design patent registration service.  

Design Patent Registration

 Introduction 

 Accolade  is one of the agency in Intellectual Property Agencies in Hong Kong, working with clients in the processes of registering and protecting trademarks, designs and patents globally.

 Intellectual Property Registration Services&nbsp; 

- Trademark Registration Service
- Design Patent Registration Services
- Patent Registration Services

Benefits of Registration of a  Trademark 

Registration of a trademark will give the owner of a trademark the right to prevent third parties from using his mark, or a deceptively similar mark, without his consent for the goods or services for which it is registered or for similar goods or services. For unregistered trademarks, owners have to rely on common law for protection. It is more difficult to establish one&#39;s case under common law.

Benefits of Registration of a  Design Patent 

A registered design can become a valuable business asset that can be bought, sold, transferred or licensed like any other property. Registration can make a design searchable by the public who may be potential licensees, stockists, investors or customers. A registered design can add value to a product and increase market awareness of your business, as the design is often what makes it attractive to the customers.&nbsp;

Registration provides a stronger protection for your design and legal action can be taken if someone copies your design without your permission. This legal protection gives you the exclusive trade right to that design for a certain period of up to many years and improves the market competitiveness of your business.

Benefits of Registration of a  Patent 

Your rights as a patent owner include but are not limited to the following: 	 The right to obtain a court order (called an injunction) to stop a competitor infringing 	 The right to obtain monetary compensation (called damages or account of profits) from an infringer that has unlawfully used your patent 	 The&nbsp;right&nbsp;to&nbsp;obtain&nbsp;a&nbsp;court&nbsp;order&nbsp;for&nbsp;delivery&nbsp;up&nbsp;or&nbsp;disposal&nbsp;of&nbsp;infringing&nbsp;articles 	 The right to grant a licence to another person to exploit your patent, in return for royalties and other payments 	 The right to sell your patent 	 The right to gift your patent in your will 	 The right to mark your product and its packaging as being patented  
 We offer transparent fee schedule for our intellectual property registration service, please check the link below:&nbsp; 
 http://accoladegroup.com.hk/trademark-registration/trademark-registration-fees-eng.html 

Intellectual Property Registration Services

PCCW Media Limited

We produce a series of trade and consumer publications to meet the needs of different purchasers. The content of these publications covers market update, special features and reports of new technologies. We serve consumers of different industries such as hardware, publishing, garment manufacturing, etc.

 
  Trade publications include hardware and machinery, publishing and packaging, trade services, garment and piecegoods, and plastic and chemicals. 
  Increase your competitiveness. 
 

Trade Publication Service

Wenbi International Corp

  This company provides trade publications and website searching services with Asian suppliers  It provides the most comprehensive and accurate sources of business contact  It helps to build trade links between buyers and suppliers in cost effective and efficient manner  It provides free registration at http://www.ttnet.net/register.htm  You could keep receiving update market information on the product categories you are interested in  

Trade Media Publications And Website Searching Service

CHINA COUNCIL FOR THE PROMOTION OF INT’L TRADE MEISHAN COUNCIL

 	 &nbsp; China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Meishan City Council (short for CCPIT Meishan Council)&nbsp; is a branch of the Sichuan Branch of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. It is led by the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government. It is represented by the representatives of the economic and trade circles of Meishan City, enterprises and organizations. The city&#39;s economic and trade promotion organization is composed of the leaders of the municipal party committee and the municipal government. The main tasks are: 	 Carrying out activities to promote trade, investment, and economic and technological cooperation between the region, the industry, and countries and regions of the world, around the overall deployment of the municipal party committee, the municipal government, and the economic development of the industry and foreign trade. 	 Receiving visits from domestic and foreign economic and trade circles and delegations; organizing economic and trade delegations to visit, inspect and participate in overseas visits; arranging exchanges between relevant foreign organizations and enterprises in the region and industry organizations, enterprises and relevant departments; The region provides services for exchanges and cooperation with the business community in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. 	 Inviting and attracting investment according to the economic development strategy of the municipal party committee, the municipal government and the industry, publicizing the investment policies and resource advantages of the municipal party committee, the municipal government and the industry, promoting the introduction of related projects, providing relevant services for foreign investment; promoting according to the needs of industrial restructuring Enterprises invest abroad (inside the country). 	 Collecting, collating, transmitting and publishing economic and trade information; undertaking evaluation and feasibility study of economic and technology  

CCPIT Meishan Council

Advanstar Licensing

Advanstar licensing is part of Advanstar communications, which manages a portfolio of over 54 trade shows, 100 conferences, 30 publications, 200 electronic products and websites, and educational and direct marketing products and services. Advanstar communications is the owner and organizer of leading trade shows in their industries, including: Licensing Expo, Brand Licensing Europe, MAGIC, and Comikaze. Advanstar licensing is also the owner and provider of LicenseConnect.com which is a new digital platform that brings the global licensing community to your fingertips.
 
  Advanstar owns the licensing industry's leading publications: License! Global. 
  Professional service. 
 

HK Black Artisan Studio Co

 	 Experienced production team. 	 Experienced public event organizer. 	 One-stop exhibition or event solutions.  

Exhibition Planning & Event Organising Service

IPR FORUM

 	 IPR Forum is an international marketing management company specializing in&nbsp;conventions,&nbsp;exhibitions,&nbsp;investment promotion, product launching,&nbsp;marketing consulting, as well as&nbsp;special events&nbsp;for your organization. 	 inception in 1982, IPR has earned its reputation as an industry leader in Korea. Acting as a Korea Consulting Office of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council since 1990, IPR Forum has developed close working relationships with key governmental bodies and major Korean industrial associations, and developed excellent cooperative networks with firms and organizations in more than 50 countries around the world.&nbsp;  

Event Service 

Bingo Software Co., Ltd.

BingoCloud&trade; platform is a suite of IaaS-type software which integrated to deliver full cloud computing capacities like Elastic Computing (EC2), Load Balancing (LB), Monitoring (CloudWatch), Automatic App-Deploying (Beanstalk) and Big Data Processing (MapReduce), etc. By encapsulating the virtualization technologies of servers, storages and networks, the platform can bring centralized dispatching and managing abilities to almost all hardware resources within any kind of data centers, and equips end-users with standardized APIs and a powerful self-service portal. The platform can also be used in a public cloud environment with additional tool kit containing functionalities of Marketplace, Online Billing, BOSS and so on.
 
  Innovative platform. 
  Good performance. 
 

BingoCloud Platform

Association of Korea Exhibition Industry

AKEI (Association of Korea Exhibition Industry) is the representative organization for the Korean exhibition industries. AKEI has been doing various businesses to develop the industry; such as promoting, supporting the industry and organizing networking opportunities for its members as well. Currently, it has more than 50 members including exhibition centers, exhibition organizers, service contractors, and other related associations. AKEI takes over a variety of projects from the government, and keeps deep relationship with related organizations.
 
  Boosting globalization of the Korean exhibitions. 
  Supporting exhibition organizers in several ways. 
  Cooperating with overseas associations or other organization for further collaboration. 
  Connecting overseas companies with Korean companies to network. 
  Dispatching university students as interns to overseas companies. 
  Providing education/learning programs to the industry. 
  Communicating with Korean government to affect the national policies. 
 

Association Service

California Centers for International Trade Development

Los Angeles Regional Export Council (LARExC) was formed by Mayor Villaraigosa in conjunction with the Brookings Institute to help local businesses navigate the public and private services needed to export their products and help the region support President Obama&rsquo;s National Export Initiative. LARExC works towards coordinating existing professional export services and providers into a responsive regional export network; developing and maintaining critical export research, information and a regional export Web site; and supplementing existing programs with critical new support. LARExC is a collaboration of regional export service organizations, including seven key partners such as Los Angeles Mayor's Office and Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.

 
  Web site: http://www.losangelesworks.org/internationalBusiness/larexc.cfm. 
  Partners: Los Angeles Mayor's Office, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, UCLA Center for International Business Education&nbsp;&amp; Research, Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports, California Center for International Trade Development (CITD), Los Angeles USC Center for International Business Education &amp; Research and UCLA Center for International Business Education&nbsp;&amp; Research. 
 

Los Angeles Regional Export Council

Zhuhai Foreign Trade Industrial Cluster

 	 Provide different exhibition service 	 Help and arrange conference 	 Arrange transportation and accomodation for the exhibitors 	 Agent between Organizor and client  

Event/ Exhibition/ Conference Service

Mega Expo (HK) Ltd

We provide professional management for your trade shows. With a committed team, we can efficiently connect you with clients and prepare the venue. With the help from us, you will be proud of a high-level trade show.
 
  Trade show organizer. 
  Professional team. 
 

Trade Show Organizer

This is&nbsp;a service that provides professional organizing assistance for trade shows. With a committed team, the company can keep your trade fairs best organized efficiently. Let us&nbsp;make your event easier!&nbsp;
 
  Trade show organizer. 
  Professional team. 
 

Mega Show offers top-tier organizing for trade shows. We are experienced in the trade show business and can satisfy your needs efficiently.&nbsp;With a professional team, we can make it happen for you!
 
  Trade show organizer. 
  Professional team. 
 

China Tibetan Carpet Association

   Participants: the association member units and related enterprises.   Only state-level international exhibition in carpet industry.   Representatives of carpet industry from China and abroad all going to attend.   With outstanding international and ethnic features.   Numerous business opportunities for you to explore.  

China(Qinghai) International Carpet Exhibition

Consumer Electronics Association

Owned and produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)&reg;, the 2014 International CES&reg; is the world&rsquo;s leading innovation event. The event is scheduled for Jan. 7-10, 2014, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 2014 CES will feature more than 3,200 exhibitors unveiling the latest consumer technology products and services across 15 product categories.
 
  Professional service. 
  The global stage for innovation. 
 

2014 International CES

China Council For Promotion Of International Trade Yangjiang Committee

 International Exhibition Service  	 Through liaison with the General Conference, the provincial capital and overseas institutions, we organize enterprises in our city to organize (participate in) trade fairs (Bo) exhibitions and domestic foreign-related exhibitions abroad. The main (successive) organizes the city&#39;s foreign-related exhibitions (distribution) meetings to show me City&#39;s famous products. Contact and guide Yangjiang Regional Exhibition Industry Association&#39;s business work.   Certificate Authentication Service  	 Issuing the Certificate of Origin of Export Goods of the City; 	 International commodity certification for foreign-related trade documents (such as commercial invoices, customs declarations, bills of lading, packing lists, etc.) and irresistible proof of labor; 	 Consulate certification business for foreign-related economic and trade documents; 	 Representative of the temporary import and export cargo documents (ATA).   International Liaison Service  	 Invite and receive visits from foreign and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwanese industrial and commercial circles and delegations; carry out the development of Yangjiang City and other countries (regions) and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, business and industry circles, business associations and other economic and trade organizations and related international economic and trade organizations. Liaison work, establish bilateral relations, maintain close contact, and promote exchange and cooperation between Yangjiang&#39;s foreign trade and international cooperation.   Overseas inspection services  	 Organize the delegation of the city to go abroad to visit and carry out economic and trade and technological exchanges and cooperation.   Account Service  	 Organize companies to participate in the international business matchmaking conference organized by China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and the Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade, international trade fairs, training courses for enterprise personnel, etc.; organize business matchmaking sessions and training courses in the city according to the needs of the city&#39;s enterprises. .   International Commercial Law Service  	 Assisting in contacting related organizations to provide enterprises with trade friction response, legal risk prevention, international commercial disputes agency, commercial mediation, commercial arbitration, maritime arbitration, legal counseling, legal training, intellectual property agency and protection, chamber of commerce urging compliance, overseas business accounts recovery Income, average adjustment and other services.  

China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Yangjiang City Committee

Rapaport International Ltd

The Rapaport Group, is an international network of companies providing first class, added value services that support the development of free, fair, efficient and competitive diamond and jewelry markets. A primary and unifying focus of the Group are knowledge based information services that create transparent and efficient markets.
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Services includes:
   Rapnet &reg; - online diamond trading network   Rapaport diamond report   The diamonds price sheet   Rapaport fair trade jewelry initiative   GIA LabDirect &reg; diamond grading and certifications services  

Rapaport Diamond Services

Global E-Business Services Ltd

To maintain Hong Kong's position as a leading trade centre, the HKSAR Government promotes the use of electronic means to conduct business in the trading community and encourage traders to transact their business electronically with their trading partners. As an appointed service provider of the HKSAR Government, Global e-Business Services Limited ('GO-Business') under the brand name of 'Ge-TS商貿易', provides Government Electronic Trading Services (GETS). As your helping hand in e-Business, we aim to provide the most cost-effective electronic trade services to the trading community with excellent customer services, application of innovative and proven technology.

Ge-TS provides full range of electronic services to the trading community, including lodgment of Import and Export Declarations (TDEC), the application of Dutiable Commodities Permit (DCP), Electronic Submission of Cargo Manifests (EMAN) service, Road Cargo System (ROCARS) service and bill payment for Port Security Charge. We deploy XML, the latest technology, as the electronic standard transmission between our system and the Government Gateway.   Appointed service provider of the HKSAR Government.   Provide Government Electronic Trading Services (GETS).   Provide the most cost-effective electronic trade services to the trading community.   Excellent customer services.   Application of innovative and proven technology.   Deploy the latest technology XML as the electronic standard transmission between our system and the Government Gateway.   Provide full range of electronic services to the trading community.   Services include: lodgment of Import and Export Declarations (TDEC), the application of Dutiable Commodities Permit (DCP), Electronic Submission of Cargo Manifests (EMAN) service, Road Cargo System (ROCARS) service and bill payment for Port Security Charge.  

Global e-Trading Service 

Czech And Moravian Electrical And Electronic Association

EIA is a free union of entrepreneurs and employers. It associates the most significant domestic producers and suppliers of the electrical and electronic industries and information technology, including both domestic branches of large international corporations and also medium and small enterprises in the ownership of domestic capital. EIA is an important member of the Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic, which is an umbrella organization for approximately 30 member organizations, associations and unions operating in various sectors of Czech industry.
 
  A free union. 
  Including a large number of members. 
 

Chinglish

Chinglish.com is a Chinese-English web site that is developing a Chinese to English dictionary and bilingual e-mails, unlike other dictionaries, Chinglish Dictionary is written collaboratively by members of the Chinglish community.
    Any members can add new words to it and make changes  With Chinglish you can write an e-mail in English and get it translated into Chinese or vice-versa  Allows members to send and recieve emails using a username in Chinese characters  

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