Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)
Printing 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
- r. Printing and publishing services (CPC88442)
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| Specific commitments |
- To simplify the approval procedures for importing Hong Kong books and to establish a Green Passage for importing Hong Kong books.
- To allow contractual service providers employed by Hong Kong service suppliers, in the mode of movement of natural persons, to provide services under this sector or sub-sector in the Mainland.1
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| Reserved Restrictive Measures under Commercial Presence (Negative List) |
| Sectors |
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| Sub-sector |
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- F. Other business services
- r. Printing and publishing services (CPC88442)
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| Obligations concerned |
National Treatment
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Reserved Restrictive
Measures |
Commercial Presence
- Not to engage in the editing, publishing and production services of books, newspapers, journals and electronic publications. Not to engage in the editing and publishing services of video and sound recording products. Hong Kong service suppliers are allowed to set up enterprises on a wholly-owned, equity joint venture or contractual joint venture basis in the Mainland to engage in the production services of video and sound recording products.
- Not to invest in online publishing services.
- The shareholding proportion of Hong Kong service suppliers engaging in the printing of publications and other printed matters (except packaging materials) shall not exceed 70%.
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1 Referring to printing and its auxiliary services.
