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Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)
Convention and Exhibition Services Liberalization Measures under CEPA
| CEPA I |
| Sectors or sub-sectors |
1. Business services |
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F. Other business services |
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Convention services and exhibition services (CPC87909) |
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Specific commitments |
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To allow Hong Kong service suppliers to provide, in the form of wholly-owned operations, convention services and exhibition services in the Mainland.1 |
1 Excluding exhibitions outside the Mainland.
| 2006 Liberalization Measures |
| Sectors or sub-sectors |
1. Business services |
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F. Other business services |
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Convention services and exhibition services (CPC87909) |
| Specific commitments |
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To allow Hong Kong service suppliers to set up wholly-owned enterprises or enterprises in the form of equity joint venture or contractual joint venture in the Mainland to provide services for organizing exhibitions in Hong Kong and Macao. |
| 2007 Liberalization Measures |
| Sectors or sub-sectors |
1. Business services |
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F. Other business services |
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Convention services and exhibition services (CPC87909) |
| Specific commitments |
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To allow Hong Kong service suppliers to organize exhibitions2 , in the form of cross-border supply, in the Guangdong Province and Shanghai Municipality on a pilot basis. |
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To allow enterprises set up by Hong Kong service suppliers on a wholly-owned, equity joint venture or contractual joint venture basis in Guangdong Province and Shanghai Municipality to organize overseas exhibitions on a pilot basis3 . Participating enterprises should be registered enterprises in that province or municipality. |
2 Subject to the approval of the Ministry of Commerce according to relevant laws and regulations in the Mainland.
3 Subject to the approval of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade according to relevant laws and regulations in the Mainland.
| 2008 Liberalization Measures |
| Sectors or sub-sectors |
1. Business services |
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F. Other business services |
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Convention services and exhibition services (CPC87909) |
| Specific commitments |
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To allow enterprises set up by Hong Kong service suppliers on a wholly-owned, equity joint venture or contractual joint venture basis in Beijing Municipality, Tianjin Municipality, Chongqing Municipality, and Zhejiang Province to organize overseas exhibitions on a pilot basis 4 . Participating enterprises should be registered enterprises in that province or municipality. |
4 Subject to the approval of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade according to relevant laws and regulations in the Mainland
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