Hong Kong: Consumer Law

In today's marketplace, where cross-border e-commerce and online shopping are the norm, consumer protection has become more critical than ever.

在如今跨境電商與網購已成常態的市場環境中，消費者權益保護的重要性愈發突顯。

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China’s competition law regulators have taken important steps to strengthen the enforcement of its competition regime, with a number of cartel investigations, some further implementation rules, and another conditional merger control decision. Imprisonment is the maximum penalty as a result of the above.

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued its much anticipated final word on how structured products are to be regulated going forward, declining to accept the submissions made by industry participants on many key issues. The removal of the minimum denomination HK$500,000 safe harbour will have a significant affect on the offering of structured products in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is an internationally well-known "Shoppers' Paradise" and its tourism industry has always been important to its economy.