Documentation of Imports and Exports

As a free port, the HKSAR keeps its import and export licensing
requirements to a minimum. Most products do not need licences to enter
or leave Hong Kong. Where licences or notifications are required, they are
intended to achieve two main objectives. First, they help the HKSAR to
fulfil its international obligations to restrain exports of textiles products
and to monitor the flow of these products into and out of Hong Kong.
Secondly, they are imposed on grounds of health, safety, environmental
protection, anti-smuggling or unrestricted access to high technology
products. Items covered include strategic commodities, reserved
commodities, pharmaceutical products and medicines, pesticides,
radioactive substances and irradiating apparatus, left-hand-drive vehicles
and ozone-depleting substances.

The HKSAR maintains a certification of origin system that, apart from
certifying the origin of Hong Kong exports, also supports claims for
preferential tariff treatment from donor countries. The Trade Department
administers this system and issues certificates of origin. Five other
organisations have been designated by the government to issue certificates
of origin. They are the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, the
Federation of Hong Kong Industries, the Indian Chamber of Commerce
Hong Kong, the Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong, and
the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce.

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