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Trade and Industry Department The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)

Job Referral Agency Services

Liberalisation Measures under CEPA

The Agreement on Trade in Services covers and consolidates commitments relating to liberalisation of trade in services provided in CEPA and its Supplements and also the Agreement between the Mainland and Hong Kong on Achieving Basic Liberalisation of Trade in Services in Guangdong.

Agreement on Trade in Services
Liberalisation Measures under Cross-border Services (Positive List)
Sectors or
Sub-sectors
  • 1. Business services
    • F. Other business services
      • k. Placement and supply services of Personnel (CPC872)
Specific
commitments
  1. To allow the international ship management companies set up by Hong Kong service suppliers in the form of wholly-owned enterprises, equity joint ventures or contractual joint ventures in the Mainland, in their application for the qualification to conduct dispatch of seafarers type of foreign labour service co-operation, without the need to apply for the qualification in foreign invested personnel placement agencies or talent intermediary agencies.
  2. Hong Kong service suppliers are allowed to directly apply in Guangdong Province to set up wholly-owned seafarer despatch enterprises to provide seafarer despatch services to Hong Kong - registered ships, without the need for setting up ship management companies.
Reserved Restrictive Measures under Commercial Presence (Negative List)
Sector
1. Business services
Sub-sector
  • F. Other business services
    • k. Placement and supply services of Personnel (CPC872)
Obligations concerned National Treatment
Reserved Restrictive
Measures
Commercial Presence
Apply national treatment.