HONG KONG (China Daily/ANN): The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Wednesday (Sept 16) formally asked the United States to immediately withdraw its new origin marking requirement on Hong Kong products.
In a statement issued on Wednesday afternoon, the government said Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Edward Yau met Acting US Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau Paul Horowitz and asked him to deliver his letter to the US Trade Representative, expressing the HKSAR government’s strong objection to the new US requirement.