Further to Strategic Trade Controls Circular No. 3/2025, this is to inform traders that the Import and Export (Strategic Commodities) Regulations (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2025 (“the Order”) will come into operation on 30 May 2025.
 

2.     The Order serves to amend Schedule 1 to the Import and Export (Strategic Commodities) Regulations (Cap. 60, sub. leg. G, hereafter “the Regulations”) to reflect the recent updates and changes to the control lists adopted by leading international regimes and convention of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.  For details, please refer to the 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 (https://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette).
 

3.     Section 6A of the Import and Export Ordinance stipulates that no person shall import or export any article specified in the Schedules to Regulations except under and in accordance with a licence issued by the Director-General of Trade and Industry.  Any person who contravenes the provision commits an offence and is liable:

( a )     on summary conviction to a fine of HK$500,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years; and

( b )     on conviction on indictment to an unlimited fine and to imprisonment for 7 years.

The Trade and Industry Department may also impose administrative actions against these persons.  Such administrative actions may involve, but shall not necessarily be confined to, suspension of a licence, refusal to issue a licence, debarment of all licensing facilities, etc.
 

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