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Commentary on the regulatory and commercial developments shaping capital deployment into the Hainan Free Trade Port.
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Zero-Tariff Goods Are Free Until They Leave: Costing the Second Line
Since closure on 18 December 2025, roughly 74% of tariff lines enter Hainan duty-free. The number that decides whether that helps a given business is not 74% — it is 30%.
Your Hainan Entity Has a Compliance Record, and Other People Can Read It
Hainan legislated a social credit statute alongside its business environment and fair competition regulations. The practical effect is that ordinary compliance failures accumulate somewhere visible.
After Closure, Hainan Is an Expansion Base for Businesses That Change Things
Island-wide closure reorganised what Hainan is good for. It rewards transformation on the island and is largely neutral towards businesses that simply pass through it.
The Security Review That Has to Happen Before You Close
Foreign investment security review is a pre-closing obligation in defined sectors. Failing to file before implementing can lead to being ordered to dispose of the equity or assets acquired.
Encouraged Industry Eligibility: Why 60% of Revenue Decides the Rate
Qualifying for the Hainan FTP's 15% corporate income tax rate turns on a revenue ratio, not on an approval. Understanding which of three catalogues your activity sits in — and what counts as main business — is the whole exercise.
Personnel Administration Is a Filed Activity, and the Records Are Evidence
Human resources services are regulated by State Council regulations, and employee records serve a second purpose in Hainan: they are part of what proves the entity's people are actually here.
Substantive Operation in the Hainan FTP: A Four-Element Test Where One Failure Is Fatal
The 15% corporate income tax rate is conditional on substantive operation, and the test has four elements that must all be satisfied in Hainan. Missing any one of them disqualifies the enterprise entirely.
Two Years on the Abnormal Operations List Is Enough to Lose the Company
Hainan's deregistration statute allows the registration authority to strike an entity that has been unreachable at its registered address for two years. The sequence starts with unopened post.
Talent Visa Pathways Compared: Which Track Fits Which Hire
Hainan's talent-attraction framework offers more than one qualifying route, and the fastest one for a given hire is not always the most obvious one on paper.
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