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or intellectual property rights, or ensure Hong Kong's unrestricted access to high technologies and hi-tech products. Products that require import or export licences. include textiles and clothing, strategic commodities, rice, chilled or frozen meat and poultry, pharmaceutical products and medicines, pesticides, radioactive substances and irradiating apparatus, and optical disc mastering and replication equipment.
The HKSAR maintains a certification of origin system to facilitate its exports to overseas markets. The Trade and Industry Department administers this system and issues certificates of origin. In addition, the Government has designated five organisations to issue certificates of origin 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.
Government Electronic Trading Services
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To maintain Hong Kong's competitiveness in the global business community, the Government has been promoting the wider adoption of electronic commerce in the trading community since the early 1990s through gradually mandating the submission of certain trade documents in electronic form. The Government engages service providers to provide the necessary front-end services, known as Government Electronic Trading Services.
Hong Kong Awards for Industries
The former Hong Kong Awards for Industry and Hong Kong Awards for Services, established in 1989 and 1997 respectively, were merged to become the Hong Kong Awards for Industries in 2005. Comprising seven award categories organised by various trade and industrial organisations and industry support bodies, the awards scheme aims to promote and honour the pursuit of excellence by enterprises in both. the industrial and services sectors.
Trade and Industrial Support Organisations
Hong Kong Trade Development Council
The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (TDC), a statutory body established in 1966, is responsible for promoting and expanding Hong Kong's external trade in goods and services. With its global network of 41 offices, TDC helps its customers, mainly local SMEs, develop marketing opportunities, trade contacts, market knowledge and competitive skills. It also seeks to project and uphold Hong Kong as the international trade platform in Asia. To this end, it organised more than 450 promotional events in and outside Hong Kong in 2005
The TDC organised 24 exhibitions during the year, seven of them the biggest international trade fairs in the region. These events attracted more than 21 000 exhibitors and over 1.6 million visitors, including some 250 000 from overseas. The TDC also organised participation by Hong Kong companies in major trade events around the world.
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