#BREAKING HK’s commerce minister Ed Yau said the US new requirement on HK to label its exports “made in China” is “calling white black” and “inconsistent with facts“

Asked if the gov's opposition of the new label rule is contradicting its position that HK is an unalienable part of China, Ed Yau said that's a misunderstanding due to lack to knowledge of One Country Two System. He emphasised that HK enjoys "a certain level of autonomy in ...

...terms of joining international organisations and international trading" and it's a separate customs territory that sometimes is required by its international trade partner to "speak the truth" of its product origins.

An interesting detail: answering the question on contradictory position, Yau stopped on a dime when he uttered "獨立"(independent) and changed the term to "單獨關稅區"(separate customs territory). But in later part of his answer he just said 獨立關稅區 without correcting himself.

HK commerce minister Ed Yau: "The US sort of recent attempt to impose an origin marking requirement on HK basically sort of asking HK traders to tell a lie that product made in HK would be described as made in China."

HK commerce minister Ed Yau: "By common sense and by international practices of origin rules, and by some WTO requirements, all these are exceptions, all these are unacceptable...how could a HK made product be mislabelled as some other places."