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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor hosted on 4 June 2018 a dinner at the Government House for ASEAN heads of mission, including the Philippines, to thank them for their support in concluding the ASEAN-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and to exchange views on regional developments.

Mrs Lam, who has visited five out of 10 ASEAN member countries since taking office in 1 July 2017, witnessed the signing of the regional FTA by Hong Kong Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Edward Yau Tang-wah in Pasay City on 12 November 2017 with ASEAN economic ministers, including Philippine Trade Secretary Ramon M. Lopez.

She reiterated hopes for the expansion of Hong Kong’s trade in goods and services, as well as investments to and from ASEAN when the ASEAN-HK FTA and a related investment agreement signed in tandem come into effect on 1 January 2019, once all the parties complete the necessary domestic procedures.

ASEAN is Hong Kong's second largest trading partner in merchandise trade and the fourth largest in services trade.

Mrs Lam has visited Singapore, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia. Visits by Hong Kong government officials and business executives to ASEAN, including the Philippines, have become more frequent in recent years. The industry-wide Hong Kong Trade Development Council made its third business mission to Manila in just over one year in April.

Deputy Consul General Roderico C. Atienza represented the Philippine consular mission in Hong Kong.

Apart from Mrs Lam and Mr Yau, the Hong Kong side was also represented by Ms Salina Yan Mei-mei, Director-General of Trade and Industry, Ms Joyce Li, Head of Protocol, and Ms Viviam Sum, Deputy Secretary of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor (front row, center) invited the ASEAN heads of mission, led by Consul General Tri Tharyat (5th from right), for dinner at the Government House on Government Hill in Hong Kong’s Central District on 4 June 2018, to thank them for their support in concluding the ASEAN-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and to exchange views on regional developments.
Deputy Consul General Roderico C. Atienza (back row, 2nd from left) represented the Philippine consular mission in Hong Kong. Apart from Mrs Lam, the Hong Kong side was also represented by Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Edward Yau Tang-wah (back row, center) Ms Salina Yan Mei-mei, Director-General of Trade and Industry (back row, far right), Ms Joyce Lee, Head of Protocol (back row, leftmost), and Ms Viviam Sum, Deputy Secretary of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau (front row, leftmost).