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Revoking Hong Kong’s #Preferential #Trade #Status: Legal Framework and Implications.

On July 14, 2020, then-President Donald Trump issued an executive order finding the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (#Hong #Kong) “no longer sufficiently #autonomous to justify #differential #treatment in relation to the People’s Republic of China” (#China) with regard to specific laws listed in the Order, and suspending differential application of those laws to Hong Kong. One of the relevant laws, 19 U.S.C. § 1304, sets out how products from other territories must be marked to indicate their country of origin. In response to the Executive Order, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (#CBP) issued a notice requiring all goods previously marked with “Hong Kong” to indicate “China” as their country of origin. Since this action, Hong Kong has initiated a World Trade Organization (#WTO) dispute against the United States, arguing the new marking requirements violate several WTO agreements. On March 31, 2021, President Joe Biden’s Administration indicated that it intends to maintain the suspension of differential treatment of Hong Kong.

This Sidebar presents the legal framework that applies to Hong Kong’s status as a separate customs territory from China, and it analyzes the implications of the U.S. actions as well as Hong Kong’s decision to initiate WTO proceedings. Although the former President’s executive order suspended a number of other statutory provisions that gave preferential treatment to Hong Kong, these actions are beyond this Sidebar’s scope.

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Background,
Legal Framework for Hong Kong’s Preferential Trade Status,
Hong Kong’s Legal Status as a Special Administrative Region,
U.S. Statutory Framework on Hong Kong’s Status,
Implications of Revoking Hong Kong’s Trade Status,
Changes to Hong Kong’s Customs Status Under U.S. Law,
Hong Kong and the WTO,
Hong Kong’s Status at the WTO,
Hong Kong’s Challenge to U.S. Actions,