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Ref : TRA CR 1506/2
       
17 January 2025
 

 Strategic Trade Controls Circular No. 3/2025
 

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the
Import & Export ( Strategic Commodities ) Regulations



Background
     

     As a responsible trading partner and an international trading hub, Hong Kong updates its control list of strategic commodities from time to time to closely follow the lists and standards adopted by leading international regimes and convention of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, namely the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies, the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Missile Technology Control Regime, the Australia Group, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, and the Arms Trade Treaty.
 
 
Amendment Order

 
2.    The Import and Export ( Strategic Commodities ) Regulations ( Amendment of Schedule 1 ) Order 2025 ( Amendment Order ) serves to amend Schedule 1 to the Import and Export ( Strategic Commodities ) Regulations ( Cap. 60, sub. leg. G ) to reflect the recent updates and changes on the control lists adopted by the international regimes1.

3.    For details of the amendments, please refer to the Amendment Order [ Legal Supplement No.2 of the Gazette published on 17 January 2025 ( L.N. 6 of 2025, No. 3, Vol. 29 ) ] at the Gazette online ( www.gld.gov.hk/egazette ).
 

Effective Date of the Amendment Order
 

4.    The Amendment Order was gazetted today ( i.e. 17 January 2025 ) and will be tabled at the Legislative Council on 22 January 2025.  It will come into operation on a day to be appointed by notice published in the Gazette.  Another circular will be issued in due course to inform traders of the effective date of the Amendment Order.

  
Enquiry


5.    Three lists of “Commonly Not-Controlled Items” ( covering three types of major trading items: Integrated Circuits, Electronic Components and Equipment; Computers, Computer Related Equipment and Software; and Telecommunications Equipment, Computer Networking Equipment and Related Accessories ) are provided at Annex.  For further enquiries, please contact our Classification Section at 2398 5587.  For information on licensing matters, please contact our Licensing Section at 2398 5575.
 
 

Strategic Trade Controls Branch
Trade and Industry Department


 

1 These include the addition of chemicals ( e.g., iodine pentafluoride, and dipropylamine ), toxins ( e.g., brevetoxins, and gonyautoxins ), software specially designed for nucleic acid assemblers and synthesisers, permanent magnet electric propulsion motors and supersonic-enabling technology, etc. for control as well as some changes in the control thresholds for signal analysers, signal generators, sensors and lasers.

 

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Last Revision Date : 17 January 2025