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Ministry of Commerce, Supplementary Provisions (III) for the Measures for the Administration of Foreign Investment in the Commercial Sector
商务部外商投资商业领域管理办法补充规定(三)

Hong Kong and Macao investors allowed to hold a controlling interest in the commercial sector.

Date: December 2007

CLP Reference: 5400/07.11.05

Promulgated: 05 November 2007

Effective: 05 November 2007

Keywords (click to search): [pharmacy] [agricultural product] [raw materials] [chain shops] [shareholding in retail business] [Hong Kong trader] [Macau trader] [retail and wholesale] [CEPA implementation]

Promulgated: November 5 2007

Effective: as of date of promulgation

Main contents: Where a Hong Kong or Macao service provider has established more than 50 shops in the mainland accumulatively, it may be the controlling shareholder with a capital contribution ratio of not more than 65% if the commodities traded include pharmaceuticals, pesticides, mulching films, chemical fertilizers, vegetable oil, sugar and cotton, and such commodities carry different brand names and are supplied by different suppliers.

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