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.

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The government proposes to amend consumer legislation in Hong Kong to increase regulation and provide additional rights to consumers. This has a wide potential effect.

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.