Manufacturers and pharmacies have announced joint measures to guarantee local mothers six tins of infant milk formula a month, a move they hope will prompt the government to drop its export curbs...
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19 Apr 2013
Improved guidelines will be issued to help customs officers enforce the two-tin infant milk formula limit at the border, but the government will make no more efforts to refine the legislation.
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29 Mar 2013
Last week, the city's health chief was forced to apologise to 12 mainlanders who had been wrongly prosecuted under a new law restricting the parallel trade in infant milk formula.
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27 Mar 2013
The government's restrictions on taking infant milk formula across the border was "based on a mistake" and should be scrapped in the long term, a milk powder producer said.
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20 Mar 2013
China's long-running food-safety scares and milk powder contamination problems have increased demand for reliable overseas supplies, creating sound investment opportunities for New Zealand's...
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16 Mar 2013
The restriction on exports of powdered milk for babies will be reviewed in one year, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said yesterday, adding that the policy was not meant to single out...
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Putting hard administrative restrictions on cross-border trade of milk powder is a policy which brings a very high cost to all parties. Businesses immediately lose customers and income.
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A backlash against Hong Kong's restrictions on infant milk formula is, unsurprisingly, escalating as more mainlanders have been fined for carrying in excess of what is allowed out of our city.
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The Sheung Shui MTR station, once jammed with hordes of people hauling bulging bags and hefty boxes, was a picture of calm yesterday in the run-up to new heavy-handed measures from the government...
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Cross-border traders were rushing to store up on milk formula on Friday morning, in the final hours before the government’s expected launch of new measures to curb the trade.
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The government is likely to announce measures to crack down on the cross-border trading of infant formula today, the South China Morning Post has learnt.
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I refer to the report ("Milk activists take on the wrong target", January 28).
You describe various activist groups taking matters into their own hands in preventing parallel traders from...
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