Parallel trading

The influx of parallel traders who buy their stock tax-free in Hong Kong to resell it in mainland China at a profit is causing growing unrest. Residents of Sheung Shui, a town close to China's border, say the increase in parallel importers has pushed up retail prices and causes a general nuisance. Importers argue that their trade benefits the Hong Kong economy.

FOOD SAFETY

Is rice the new 'milk powder' for Hong Kong/China cross-border tensions?

21 May 2013

Buy too much rice in Hong Kong and “you could end up in jail”, Chinese media warned tourists in the wake of the Guangzhou cadmium scandal.

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Two men admit assaulting South China Morning Post photographer

1 May 2013

In Fanling Court yesterday, Cheng Shing-wing and Li Hak pleaded guilty to one count each of common assault, but they denied they were parallel-goods traders. Magistrate Wong Sze-lai postponed...

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Guidelines but no change to two-tin law

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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Border-town residents say traders cost them dear

17 Apr 2013

An overwhelming majority of border-town residents blame parallel-goods traders for driving up prices locally, according to a survey released yesterday.

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Leung Chun-ying ready to help mainland mums buy infant formula

12 Apr 2013

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying says he is willing for the city to help meet the mainland's needs for infant formula by "re-exporting baby milk powder directly from Hong Kong to the mainland".

4:29AM

More than HK$1 million worth of milk powder seized in customs raid

9 Apr 2013

Customs officials have seized more than HK$1 million worth of baby milk powder in a crackdown on a warehouse used to store the product for parallel-goods trading purposes.

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10 suspected milk formula smugglers arrested

The continuing crackdown on cross-border baby formula traders has seen 10 people arrested in two days for allegedly smuggling 110 tins of milk powder, customs chiefs said.

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Our free trade demands justice

Influential groups in Hong Kong seem to have less and less idea of why the territory exists as a separate entity, what makes it distinct and what makes it thrive, for reasons that are hard to...

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Parallel trading of baby milk formula still rampant despite Hong Kong restrictions

A check of the mainland side of the Lo Wu border checkpoint at the weekend found several dozen traders with trolleys full of milk powder. They were collecting different brands and handing out cash...

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Hong Kong needs new formula for milk formula

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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PARALLEL-GOODS TRADING

Government mulls the meaning of 'milk powder' in the two-tin ban

The definition of milk powder can be amended to fine-tune a ban against the unlicensed export of infant formula, health authorities say.

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PARALLEL TRADE

Food chief denies any pressure over milk limit

Secretary for Food and Heath Dr Ko Wing-man has denied coming under political pressure to end the newly imposed restrictions on taking infant milk formula across the border.

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