Four things to handle in Hong Kong
Setting up in Hong Kong usually touches four things: incorporating a company, opening a bank account, arranging an address and office, and (if you trade) an entrepot structure. Each has compliance points worth watching; they are laid out here by task.
Set up a Hong Kong company Incorporating a Hong Kong company touches incorporation, business registration and the annual return. The fees and deadlines carry written authority, set out here from verified official figures. Open this one Open a bank account Opening a Hong Kong bank account is often the least certain step. How much, or on what terms, depends on each bank's own risk appetite; there is no single public guarantee. Open this one Address and office Address is one place Hong Kong compliance keeps coming back to. The law sets an explicit display requirement for a company's name; how you arrange an office and registered address depends on your actual operation. Open this one Entrepot trade For a trade structure that runs through a Hong Kong company as reseller or intermediary, profit attribution and the burden of proof for an offshore claim decide whether it holds. This page adds the parts that are usually left out, rather than repeating a six-step flow. Open this one