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The Ministry of Industry Regulation 02/M-IND/PER/1/2014 establishes price preferences for bidders using domestic content. According to the law, the procurement of public goods and services is categorized depending on the Domestic Component Level (Tingkat Komponen Dalam Negeri - TKDN). Price preferences are issued for bidders with more than 25% of TKDN or striving to achieve at least 30%. The price preferences can be up to 15% for the procurement of goods and maximally 7.5% for services.

Based on Article 6 of the Regulation 15/M-IND/PER/3/2016, transmission towers and steel-reinforced conductors used in public procurement require a minimum local content of 40%.

Decree 41/PER/M.KOMINFO/10/2009 requires Indonesian telecommunication operators to expend a minimum of 50% of their total capital expenditures for network development on locally sourced components or services. Decree 41 also requires companies to annually report the percentage of local content procured and have that information “authenticated” by the government or a survey institute appointed by the government.

The Ministry of Industry adopted on 29 May 2009 a regulation (Regulation 49/2009) requiring the use of domestic products and services in 558 sub-sectors for public procurement. The regulation relates to both domestic and foreign companies established in Indonesia which could be considered as local producers in several sectors, including the telecommunication sector. The regulation is a response to a Presidential instruction No. 2/2009 stipulating that all state administration should 'optimize' the use of domestic goods and services and give price preferences to domestic goods and providers. Domestic products are defined as 'goods/services (including construction-design and engineering) produced or prepared by a company investing and producing in Indonesia, with the possibility to use imported raw material or component in the production or working process'.

On 13 January 2014, the Indonesian Ministry of Industry issued Regulation 02/M-IND/PER/1/2014 restricting public procurement (replacing regulation 15/M-IND/PER/2/2011). According to the new law, the procurement of public goods and services is categorized depending on the Domestic Component Level (TKDN) and the Company Utilization Point Rating (BMP) which is based on investments of the suppliers in Indonesia.

The regulation constitutes a local content requirement because domestic service suppliers need to be prioritized, as given by Art. 10. In order to be considered as a domestic service supplier, the majority of shares have to belong to an Indonesian citizen and two thirds of the board members have to be locals. If no domestic service suppliers are participating in the procurement, national service suppliers (with at least 10% of shares belonging to Indonesians) will be taken into consideration. Other regulations were introduced concerning consortiums as these must be led by a domestic service supplier for onshore construction. In the case of offshore constructions the work has to be fulfilled only up to 30% by a domestic supplier. This minimum increases to 50%, when the consortiums includes national or foreign service suppliers.

According to Presidential Regulation No. 54/2010, foreign companies can only bid in cooperation with a national company (unless no national company has the ability to provide the goods and services requested) and only on bids that exceed the following thresholds:
- Rp 100 billion (approx. 9 million USD for construction services;
- Rp 20 billion (approx. 1,8 million USD) for goods and other services; and
- Rp 10 billion (approx. 0,9 million USD) for consulting services (Art. 104).
In addition, Art. 97 mandates the use of domestic products in government procurement if there are providers offering goods and services with a local content exceeding 40%.

Regulation 02/M-IND/PER/1/2014 restricts the participation of foreign suppliers in public procurement. It states that domestic service suppliers should always be prioritized in public procurement. Only if no domestic service suppliers are participating in the procurement, national service suppliers (with at least 10% of shares belonging to Indonesians) are be taken into consideration. Only once these are unavailable as well, foreign service suppliers are allowed in the procurement process (Art. 16(1)).

Export financing is granted only to domestic companies. Thus, to be considered for credit, the investor shall constitute a legal entity in Indonesia.

The Indonesian tax authority issued the Circular Letter 4/2017. The Circular is addressed to Over-the-Top Services. Under the Circular, foreign Over-the-Top Services that come within the meaning of permanent establishment under the Circular are subject to Indonesian tax. Entities are also considered as permanent establishments if they provide any form of services for period of 60 days or more within any given 12 month period. It is reported that the law has the objective obtain tax revenue from foreign online businesses such as the social media giants. Additionally, Indonesia’s finance minister of finance recently called for digital services companies to permanently establish themselves in Indonesia, or else face a blockage of services.

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Hong Kong has no de minimis rule, which means that there is no minimum value below which a good is exempted from duties and taxes collected by customs.

Despite the Electronic Transactions Ordinance Act is based on the UNCITRAL model law on e-commerce, Hong Kong has not officially adopted the UNICTRAL model law.

Under Section 9 of the Telecommunications Ordinance, any person who wishes to import to or export from Hong Kong any radio transmitting apparatus needs to obtain a permit granted by the Communications Authority, unless he/she is the holder of an Unrestricted Radio Dealer Licence.

For certain prescribed products (such as plugs, adaptors, extension units) a declaration of conformity is not accepted as a certificate of safety compliance. Therefore, the importer has to provide another certification.