Financial Statements
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
−Removed: OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2019 AND DECEMBER 31, 2018
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
+Added: AS OF MARCH 31, 2020 AND DECEMBER 31,
Current Assets
1 unchanged sentence
Restricted cash
−Removed: Accounts receivable (net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $56,638 and $58,707 as of September 30, 2019 and December 2018, respectively)
+Added: Accounts receivable (net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $36,645 and $59,922 as of March 31, 2020 and December 2019, respectively)
Prepayments and other current assets
+Added: Due from related parties
Total current assets
+Added: Prepayment on property, plant and equipment
Property, plant, and equipment, net
1 unchanged sentence
Deferred tax asset non-current
−Removed: Other non-current assets
$ 182,256,298
14 unchanged sentences
Loans from a related party
−Removed: Total liabilities (including amounts of the consolidated VIE without recourse to the Company of $67,168,878 and $34,008,908 as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively)
+Added: Other long-term payable
+Added: Total liabilities (including amounts of the consolidated VIE without recourse to the Company of $16,342,512 and $19,460,257 as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively)
Commitments and Contingencies
9 unchanged sentences
$ 190,198,430
−Removed: accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
−Removed: THE THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2019 AND 2018
+Added: See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated
+Added: financial statements.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF
+Added: INCOME AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
+Added: FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31,
+Added: 2020 AND 2019
Three Months Ended
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: September 30,
Cost of sales
(17,642,758 )
−Removed: (25,464,314 )
−Removed: (75,917,762 )
−Removed: (58,181,584 )
Selling, general and administrative expenses
−Removed: Gain (Loss) from disposal of property, plant and equipment
−Removed: Gain on acquisition of a subsidiary
−Removed: Income (Loss) from Operations
+Added: Loss from Operations
Other Income (Expense):
2 unchanged sentences
Interest expense
−Removed: Income (Loss) before Income Taxes
+Added: Loss before Income Taxes
Provision for Income Taxes
−Removed: Net Income (Loss)
−Removed: Other Comprehensive Loss
+Added: Other Comprehensive (Loss) Income
Foreign currency translation adjustment
−Removed: Total Comprehensive Loss
−Removed: $ (2,472,352 )
−Removed: $ (8,399,059 )
−Removed: $ (4,999,880 )
+Added: Total Comprehensive (Loss) Income
$ (5,026,041 )
−Removed: Earnings (Losses) Per Share:
−Removed: Basic and Diluted Earnings (Losses) per Share
+Added: Losses Per Share:
+Added: Basic and Diluted Losses per Share
Outstanding –
Basic and Diluted
−Removed: accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
−Removed: THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2019 AND 2018
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated
+Added: financial statements.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF
+Added: FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31,
+Added: 2020 AND 2019
+Added: Three Months Ended
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
$ (2,436,287 )
+Added: $ (2,722,595 )
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization
−Removed: Loss from disposal and impairment of property, plant and equipment
Allowance for bad debts
−Removed: Gain on acquisition of a subsidiary
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
8 unchanged sentences
Income taxes payable
−Removed: Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities
+Added: Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities
Cash Flows from Investing Activities:
Purchases of property, plant and equipment
−Removed: Acquisition of a subsidiary
Net Cash Used in Investing Activities
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
−Removed: Proceeds from related party loans
−Removed: Repayments of related party loans
Proceeds from short term bank loans
−Removed: Proceeds from credit union loans
Repayment of bank loans
−Removed: (11,499,285 )
−Removed: Net Cash (Used in) Provided by Financing Activities
+Added: Net Cash Used in Financing Activities
Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Cash and Cash Equivalents
−Removed: Net (Decrease) Increase in Cash and Cash Equivalents
+Added: Net Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash, Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash - Beginning of Period
6 unchanged sentences
Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash shown in the statement of cash flows
−Removed: accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated
+Added: financial statements.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF
+Added: CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’
+Added: FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31,
+Added: 2020 AND 2019
+Added: Comprehensive
+Added: Income (loss)
+Added: Balance at December 31, 2019
+Added: $ (6,057,537 )
+Added: $ 114,794,796
+Added: $ 165,995,062
+Added: Foreign currency translation adjustment
+Added: Balance at March 31, 2020
+Added: $ (8,647,291 )
+Added: $ 112,358,509
+Added: $ 160,969,021
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
(1) Organization and Business Background
−Removed: Tech Packaging, Inc.
−Removed: (the Company) was incorporated in the State of Nevada on December 9, 2005, under the name “Carlateral,
−Removed: Through the steps described immediately below, we became the holding company for Hebei Baoding Dongfang Paper Milling
−Removed: Company Limited (“Dongfang Paper”), a producer and distributor of paper products in China, on October 29, 2007, and
−Removed: effective December 21, 2007, we changed our name to “Orient Paper, Inc.”.
−Removed: on August 1, 2018, we changed our corporate name to IT Tech Packaging, Inc..
−Removed: The name change was effected through a parent/subsidiary
−Removed: short-form merger of IT Tech Packaging, Inc., our wholly-owned Nevada subsidiary formed solely for the purpose of the name change,
−Removed: with and into us.
+Added: IT Tech Packaging, Inc.
+Added: (the “Company”) was
+Added: incorporated in the State of Nevada on December 9, 2005, under the name “Carlateral, Inc.”
+Added: Through the steps described
+Added: immediately below, we became the holding company for Hebei Baoding Dongfang Paper Milling Company Limited (“Dongfang Paper”),
+Added: a producer and distributor of paper products in China, on October 29, 2007, and effective December 21, 2007, we changed our name
+Added: to “Orient Paper, Inc.”.
+Added: Effective on August 1, 2018, we changed our corporate name to
+Added: IT Tech Packaging, Inc..
+Added: The name change was effected through a parent/subsidiary short-form merger of IT Tech Packaging, Inc., our
+Added: wholly-owned Nevada subsidiary formed solely for the purpose of the name change, with and into us.
We were the surviving entity.
−Removed: In connection with the name change, our common stock began being traded under
−Removed: a new NYSE symbol, “ITP,”
−Removed: and a new CUSIP number, 46527C100, at such time.
−Removed: October 29, 2007, pursuant to an agreement and plan of merger (the “Merger Agreement”), the Company acquired Dongfang
−Removed: Zhiye Holding Limited (“Dongfang Holding”), a corporation formed on November 13, 2006 under the laws of the British
−Removed: Virgin Islands, and issued the shareholders of Dongfang Holding an aggregate of 7,450,497 (as adjusted for a four-for-one reverse
−Removed: stock split effected in November 2009) shares of our common stock, which shares were distributed pro-rata to the shareholders
−Removed: of Dongfang Holding in accordance with their respective ownership interests in Dongfang Holding.
−Removed: At the time of the Merger Agreement,
−Removed: Dongfang Holding owned all of the issued and outstanding stock and ownership of Dongfang Paper and such shares of Dongfang Paper
−Removed: were held in trust with Zhenyong Liu, Xiaodong Liu and Shuangxi Zhao, for Mr.
−Removed: Zhao (the original shareholders
−Removed: of Dongfang Paper) to exercise control over the disposition of Dongfang Holding’s shares in Dongfang Paper on Dongfang Holding’s
−Removed: behalf until Dongfang Holding successfully completed the change in registration of Dongfang Paper’s capital with the relevant
−Removed: PRC Administration of Industry and Commerce as the 100% owner of Dongfang Paper’s shares.
−Removed: As a result of the merger transaction,
−Removed: Dongfang Holding became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and Dongfang Holding’s wholly owned subsidiary, Dongfang
−Removed: Paper, became an indirectly owned subsidiary of the Company.
−Removed: Holding, as the 100% owner of Dongfang Paper, was unable to complete the registration of Dongfang Paper’s capital under
−Removed: its name within the proper time limits set forth under PRC law.
−Removed: In connection with the consummation of the restructuring transactions
−Removed: described below, Dongfang Holding directed the trustees to return the shares of Dongfang Paper to their original shareholders,
−Removed: and the original Dongfang Paper shareholders entered into certain agreements with Baoding Shengde Paper Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“Baoding
−Removed: Shengde”) to transfer the control of Dongfang Paper over to Baoding Shengde.
−Removed: June 24, 2009, the Company consummated a number of restructuring transactions pursuant to which it acquired all of the issued
−Removed: and outstanding shares of Shengde Holdings Inc, a Nevada corporation.
−Removed: Shengde Holdings Inc was incorporated in the State of Nevada
−Removed: on February 25, 2009.
−Removed: On June 1, 2009, Shengde Holdings Inc incorporated Baoding Shengde, a limited liability company organized
−Removed: under the laws of the PRC.
−Removed: Because Baoding Shengde is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shengde Holdings Inc, it is regarded as a wholly
−Removed: foreign-owned entity under PRC law.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: ensure proper compliance of the Company’s control over the ownership and operations of Dongfang Paper with certain PRC regulations,
−Removed: on June 24, 2009, the Company entered into a series of contractual agreements (the “Contractual Agreements”)
−Removed: with Dongfang Paper and Dongfang Paper Equity Owners via the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary Shengde Holdings Inc (“Shengde
−Removed: Holdings”) a Nevada corporation and Baoding Shengde Paper Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“Baoding Shengde”), a wholly foreign-owned
−Removed: enterprise in the PRC with an original registered capital of $10,000,000 (subsequently increased to $60,000,000 in June 2010).
−Removed: Baoding Shengde is mainly engaged in production and distribution of digital photo paper and is 100% owned by Shengde Holdings.
−Removed: Prior to February 10, 2010, the Contractual Agreements included (i) Exclusive Technical Service and Business Consulting Agreement,
−Removed: which generally provides that Baoding Shengde shall provide exclusive technical, business and management consulting services to
−Removed: Dongfang Paper, in exchange for service fees including a fee equivalent to 80% of Dongfang Paper’s total annual net profits;
−Removed: (ii) Loan Agreement, which provides that Baoding Shengde will make a loan in the aggregate principal amount of $10,000,000 to
−Removed: Dongfang Paper Equity Owners in exchange for each such shareholder agreeing to contribute all of its proceeds from the loan to
−Removed: the registered capital of Dongfang Paper;
−Removed: (iii) Call Option Agreement, which generally provides, among other things, that Dongfang
−Removed: Paper Equity Owners irrevocably grant to Baoding Shengde an option to purchase all or part of each owner’s equity interest
+Added: In connection with the name change, our common stock began being traded under a new NYSE symbol, “ITP,”
+Added: and a new CUSIP
+Added: number, 46527C100, at such time.
+Added: On October 29, 2007, pursuant to an agreement
+Added: and plan of merger (the “Merger Agreement”), the Company acquired Dongfang Zhiye Holding Limited (“Dongfang Holding”),
+Added: a corporation formed on November 13, 2006 under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, and issued the shareholders of Dongfang
+Added: Holding an aggregate of 7,450,497 (as adjusted for a four-for-one reverse stock split effected in November 2009) shares of our
+Added: common stock, which shares were distributed pro-rata to the shareholders of Dongfang Holding in accordance with their respective
+Added: ownership interests in Dongfang Holding.
+Added: At the time of the Merger Agreement, Dongfang Holding owned all of the issued and outstanding
+Added: stock and ownership of Dongfang Paper and such shares of Dongfang Paper were held in trust with Zhenyong Liu, Xiaodong Liu and
+Added: Shuangxi Zhao, for Mr.
+Added: Zhao (the original shareholders of Dongfang Paper) to exercise control over the disposition
+Added: of Dongfang Holding’s shares in Dongfang Paper on Dongfang Holding’s behalf until Dongfang Holding successfully completed
+Added: the change in registration of Dongfang Paper’s capital with the relevant PRC Administration of Industry and Commerce as the
+Added: 100% owner of Dongfang Paper’s shares.
+Added: As a result of the merger transaction, Dongfang Holding became a wholly owned subsidiary
+Added: of the Company, and Dongfang Holding’s wholly owned subsidiary, Dongfang Paper, became an indirectly owned subsidiary of
+Added: Dongfang Holding, as the 100% owner of
+Added: Dongfang Paper, was unable to complete the registration of Dongfang Paper’s capital under its name within the proper time
+Added: limits set forth under PRC law.
+Added: In connection with the consummation of the restructuring transactions described below, Dongfang
+Added: Holding directed the trustees to return the shares of Dongfang Paper to their original shareholders, and the original Dongfang
+Added: Paper shareholders entered into certain agreements with Baoding Shengde Paper Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“Baoding Shengde”) to transfer
+Added: the control of Dongfang Paper over to Baoding Shengde.
+Added: On June 24, 2009, the Company consummated
+Added: a number of restructuring transactions pursuant to which it acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Shengde Holdings
+Added: Inc, a Nevada corporation.
+Added: Shengde Holdings Inc was incorporated in the State of Nevada on February 25, 2009.
+Added: On June 1, 2009,
+Added: Shengde Holdings Inc incorporated Baoding Shengde, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the PRC.
+Added: Because Baoding
+Added: Shengde is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shengde Holdings Inc, it is regarded as a wholly foreign-owned entity under PRC law.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
+Added: To ensure proper compliance of the Company’s
+Added: control over the ownership and operations of Dongfang Paper with certain PRC regulations, on June 24, 2009, the Company entered
+Added: into a series of contractual agreements (the “Contractual Agreements”) with Dongfang Paper and Dongfang Paper Equity
+Added: Owners via the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary Shengde Holdings Inc (“Shengde Holdings”) a Nevada corporation
+Added: and Baoding Shengde Paper Co., Ltd.
+Added: (“Baoding Shengde”), a wholly foreign-owned enterprise in the PRC with an original
+Added: registered capital of $10,000,000 (subsequently increased to $60,000,000 in June 2010).
+Added: Baoding Shengde is mainly engaged in production
+Added: and distribution of digital photo paper and is 100% owned by Shengde Holdings.
+Added: Prior to February 10, 2010, the Contractual Agreements
+Added: included (i) Exclusive Technical Service and Business Consulting Agreement, which generally provides that Baoding Shengde shall
+Added: provide exclusive technical, business and management consulting services to Dongfang Paper, in exchange for service fees including
+Added: a fee equivalent to 80% of Dongfang Paper’s total annual net profits;
+Added: (ii) Loan Agreement, which provides that Baoding Shengde
+Added: will make a loan in the aggregate principal amount of $10,000,000 to Dongfang Paper Equity Owners in exchange for each such shareholder
+Added: agreeing to contribute all of its proceeds from the loan to the registered capital of Dongfang Paper;
+Added: (iii) Call Option Agreement,
+Added: which generally provides, among other things, that Dongfang Paper Equity Owners irrevocably grant to Baoding Shengde an option
+Added: to purchase all or part of each owner’s equity interest in Dongfang Paper.
+Added: The exercise price for the options shall be RMB1
+Added: which Baoding Shengde should pay to each of Dongfang Paper Equity Owner for all their equity interests in Dongfang Paper;
+Added: Share Pledge Agreement, which provides that Dongfang Paper Equity Owners will pledge all of their equity interests in Dongfang
+Added: Paper to Baoding Shengde as security for their obligations under the other agreements described in this section.
+Added: Specifically,
+Added: Baoding Shengde is entitled to dispose of the pledged equity interests in the event that Dongfang Paper Equity Owners breach their
+Added: obligations under the Loan Agreement or Dongfang Paper fails to pay the service fees to Baoding Shengde pursuant to the Exclusive
+Added: Technical Service and Business Consulting Agreement;
+Added: and (v) Proxy Agreement, which provides that Dongfang Paper Equity Owners
+Added: shall irrevocably entrust a designee of Baoding Shengde with such shareholder’s voting rights and the right to represent
+Added: such shareholder to exercise such owner’s rights at any equity owners’
+Added: meeting of Dongfang Paper or with respect to
+Added: any equity owner action to be taken in accordance with the laws and Dongfang Paper’s Articles of Association.
+Added: the agreement are binding on the parties for as long as Dongfang Paper Equity Owners continue to hold any equity interest in Dongfang
+Added: An Dongfang Paper Equity Owner will cease to be a party to the agreement once it transfers its equity interests with the
+Added: prior approval of Baoding Shengde.
+Added: As the Company had controlled Dongfang Paper since July 16, 2007 through Dongfang Holding and
+Added: the trust until June 24, 2009, and continued to control Dongfang Paper through Baoding Shengde and the Contractual Agreements,
+Added: the execution of the Contractual Agreements is considered as a business combination under common control.
+Added: On February 10, 2010, Baoding Shengde and
+Added: the Dongfang Paper Equity Owners entered into a Termination of Loan Agreement to terminate the above-mentioned $10,000,000 Loan
+Added: Because of the Company’s decision to fund future business expansions through Baoding Shengde instead of Dongfang
+Added: Paper, the $10,000,000 loan contemplated was never made prior to the point of termination.
+Added: The parties believe the termination
+Added: of the Loan Agreement does not in itself compromise the effective control of the Company over Dongfang Paper and its businesses
+Added: An agreement was also entered into among
+Added: Baoding Shengde, Dongfang Paper and the Dongfang Paper Equity Owners on December 31, 2010, reiterating that Baoding Shengde is
+Added: entitled to 100% of the distributable profit of Dongfang Paper, pursuant to the above mentioned Contractual Agreements.
+Added: Dongfang Paper and the Dongfang Paper Equity Owners shall not declare any of Dongfang Paper’s unappropriated earnings as
+Added: dividend, including the unappropriated earnings of Dongfang Paper from its establishment to 2010 and thereafter.
+Added: On June 25, 2019, Dongfang Paper entered
+Added: into an acquisition agreement with shareholder of Hebei Tengsheng Paper Co., Ltd.(“Hebei Tengsheng”), a limited liability
+Added: company organized under the laws of the PRC, pursuant to which Dongfang Paper will acquire Hebei Tengsheng.
+Added: Upon full payment of
+Added: the consideration in the amount of RMB 320 million (approximately $45 million), Hebei Tengsheng will become a wholly owned subsidiary
+Added: of Dongfang Paper that manufactures and sells tissue paper products.
+Added: The Company has no direct equity interest
in Dongfang Paper.
−Removed: The exercise price for the options shall be RMB1 which Baoding Shengde should pay to each of Dongfang Paper
−Removed: Equity Owner for all their equity interests in Dongfang Paper;
−Removed: (iv) Share Pledge Agreement, which provides that Dongfang Paper
−Removed: Equity Owners will pledge all of their equity interests in Dongfang Paper to Baoding Shengde as security for their obligations
−Removed: under the other agreements described in this section.
−Removed: Specifically, Baoding Shengde is entitled to dispose of the pledged equity
−Removed: interests in the event that Dongfang Paper Equity Owners breach their obligations under the Loan Agreement or Dongfang Paper fails
−Removed: to pay the service fees to Baoding Shengde pursuant to the Exclusive Technical Service and Business Consulting Agreement;
−Removed: (v) Proxy Agreement, which provides that Dongfang Paper Equity Owners shall irrevocably entrust a designee of Baoding Shengde
−Removed: with such shareholder’s voting rights and the right to represent such shareholder to exercise such owner’s rights
−Removed: at any equity owners’
−Removed: meeting of Dongfang Paper or with respect to any equity owner action to be taken in accordance with
−Removed: the laws and Dongfang Paper’s Articles of Association.
−Removed: The terms of the agreement are binding on the parties for as long
−Removed: as Dongfang Paper Equity Owners continue to hold any equity interest in Dongfang Paper.
−Removed: An Dongfang Paper Equity Owner will cease
−Removed: to be a party to the agreement once it transfers its equity interests with the prior approval of Baoding Shengde.
−Removed: As the Company
−Removed: had controlled Dongfang Paper since July 16, 2007 through Dongfang Holding and the trust until June 24, 2009, and continued to
−Removed: control Dongfang Paper through Baoding Shengde and the Contractual Agreements, the execution of the Contractual Agreements is
−Removed: considered as a business combination under common control.
−Removed: February 10, 2010, Baoding Shengde and the Dongfang Paper Equity Owners entered into a Termination of Loan Agreement to terminate
−Removed: the above-mentioned $10,000,000 Loan Agreement.
−Removed: Because of the Company’s decision to fund future business expansions through
−Removed: Baoding Shengde instead of Dongfang Paper, the $10,000,000 loan contemplated was never made prior to the point of termination.
−Removed: The parties believe the termination of the Loan Agreement does not in itself compromise the effective control of the Company over
−Removed: Dongfang Paper and its businesses in the PRC.
−Removed: agreement was also entered into among Baoding Shengde, Dongfang Paper and the Dongfang Paper Equity Owners on December 31, 2010,
−Removed: reiterating that Baoding Shengde is entitled to 100% of the distributable profit of Dongfang Paper, pursuant to the above mentioned
−Removed: Contractual Agreements.
−Removed: In addition, Dongfang Paper and the Dongfang Paper Equity Owners shall not declare any of Dongfang Paper’s
−Removed: unappropriated earnings as dividend, including the unappropriated earnings of Dongfang Paper from its establishment to 2010 and
−Removed: June 25, 2019, Dongfang Paper entered into an acquisition agreement with shareholder of Hebei Tengsheng Paper Co., Ltd.(“Hebei
−Removed: Tengsheng”), a limited liability company organized under the laws of the PRC, pursuant to which Dongfang Paper will acquire
−Removed: Hebei Tengsheng.
−Removed: As a result, Hebei Tengsheng becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Dongfang Paper that manufactures and sells
−Removed: tissue paper products.
−Removed: Company has no direct equity interest in Dongfang Paper.
−Removed: However, through the Contractual Agreements described above, the Company
−Removed: is found to be the primary beneficiary (the “Primary Beneficiary”) of Dongfang Paper and is deemed to have the effective
−Removed: control over Dongfang Paper’s activities that most significantly affect its economic performance, resulting in Dongfang
−Removed: Paper and its subsidiary being treated as a controlled variable interest entity of the Company in accordance with Topic 810 -
−Removed: Consolidation of the Accounting Standards Codification (the “ASC”) issued by the Financial Accounting Standard Board
−Removed: (the “FASB”).
−Removed: The revenue generated from Dongfang Paper and Hebei Tengsheng for the three months ended September 30,
−Removed: 2019 and 2018 was accounted for 100%, of the Company’s total revenue.
−Removed: The revenue generated from Dongfang Paper and Hebei
−Removed: Tengsheng for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 was accounted for 100% and 99.98%, respectively, of the Company’s
−Removed: total revenue.
−Removed: Dongfang Paper and Hebei Tengsheng also accounted for 92.53% and 90.6% of the total assets of the Company as of
−Removed: September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, details of the Company’s subsidiaries and variable interest entities are as
−Removed: Date of Incorporation
+Added: However, through the Contractual Agreements described above, the Company is found to be the primary beneficiary
+Added: (the “Primary Beneficiary”) of Dongfang Paper and is deemed to have the effective control over Dongfang Paper’s
+Added: activities that most significantly affect its economic performance, resulting in Dongfang Paper being treated as a controlled variable
+Added: interest entity of the Company in accordance with Topic 810 - Consolidation of the Accounting Standards Codification (the “ASC”)
+Added: issued by the Financial Accounting Standard Board (the “FASB”).
+Added: The revenue generated from Dongfang Paper for the three
+Added: months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 was accounted for 100% of the Company’s total revenue.
+Added: Dongfang Paper also accounted
+Added: for 90.02% and 91.01% of the total assets of the Company as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, details of the Company’s
+Added: subsidiaries and variable interest entities are as follows:
+Added: Incorporation
Incorporation or
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Paper production and distribution
−Removed: Variable interest
−Removed: entity (“VIE”):
+Added: Variable interest entity (“VIE”):
Dongfang Paper
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Paper production and distribution
−Removed: Hebei Tengsheng
−Removed: April 7, 2011
−Removed: Paper production and distribution
−Removed: Paper is treated as a 100% controlled variable interest entity of the Company.
−Removed: Tengsheng is 100% owned subsidiary of Dongfang Paper.
−Removed: uncertainties in the PRC legal system could cause the Company’s current ownership structure to be found to be in violation
−Removed: of any existing and/or future PRC laws or regulations and could limit the Company’s ability, through its subsidiary, to
−Removed: enforce its rights under these contractual arrangements.
−Removed: Furthermore, shareholders of the VIE may have interests that are different
−Removed: than those of the Company, which could potentially increase the risk that they would seek to act contrary to the terms of the
−Removed: aforementioned agreements.
−Removed: addition, if the current structure or any of the contractual arrangements were found to be in violation of any existing or future
−Removed: PRC law, the Company may be subject to penalties, which may include, but not be limited to, the cancellation or revocation of
−Removed: the Company’s business and operating licenses, being required to restructure the Company’s operations or being required
−Removed: to discontinue the Company’s operating activities.
−Removed: The imposition of any of these or other penalties may result in a material
−Removed: and adverse effect on the Company’s ability to conduct its operations.
−Removed: In such case, the Company may not be able to operate
−Removed: or control the VIE, which may result in deconsolidation of the VIE.
−Removed: The Company believes the possibility that it will no longer
−Removed: be able to control and consolidate its VIE will occur as a result of the aforementioned risks and uncertainties is remote.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: Company has aggregated the financial information of Dongfang Paper in the table below.
−Removed: The aggregate carrying value of Dongfang
−Removed: Paper’s assets and liabilities (after elimination of intercompany transactions and balances) in the Company’s condensed
−Removed: consolidated balance sheets as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018 are as follows:
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: * Dongfang Paper is treated as a 100% controlled variable
+Added: interest entity of the Company.
+Added: However, uncertainties in the PRC legal
+Added: system could cause the Company’s current ownership structure to be found to be in violation of any existing and/or future
+Added: PRC laws or regulations and could limit the Company’s ability, through its subsidiary, to enforce its rights under these
+Added: contractual arrangements.
+Added: Furthermore, shareholders of the VIE may have interests that are different than those of the Company,
+Added: which could potentially increase the risk that they would seek to act contrary to the terms of the aforementioned agreements.
+Added: In addition, if the current structure or
+Added: any of the contractual arrangements were found to be in violation of any existing or future PRC law, the Company may be subject
+Added: to penalties, which may include, but not be limited to, the cancellation or revocation of the Company’s business and operating
+Added: licenses, being required to restructure the Company’s operations or being required to discontinue the Company’s operating
+Added: The imposition of any of these or other penalties may result in a material and adverse effect on the Company’s
+Added: ability to conduct its operations.
+Added: In such case, the Company may not be able to operate or control the VIE, which may result in
+Added: deconsolidation of the VIE.
+Added: The Company believes the possibility that it will no longer be able to control and consolidate its
+Added: VIE will occur as a result of the aforementioned risks and uncertainties is remote.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
+Added: The Company has aggregated the financial
+Added: information of Dongfang Paper in the table below.
+Added: The aggregate carrying value of Dongfang Paper’s assets and liabilities
+Added: (after elimination of intercompany transactions and balances) in the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets as of
+Added: March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 are as follows:
Current Assets
5 unchanged sentences
Total current assets
+Added: Prepayment on property, plant and equipment
Property, plant, and equipment, net
Deferred tax asset non-current
−Removed: Other non-current assets
$ 164,067,645
4 unchanged sentences
Accounts payable
−Removed: Notes payable
Due to related parties
4 unchanged sentences
Loans from credit union
−Removed: Loans from a related party
Total liabilities
−Removed: Company and its consolidated subsidiaries are not required to provide financial support to the VIE, and no creditor (or beneficial
−Removed: interest holders) of the VIE have recourse to the assets of Company unless the Company separately agrees to be subject to such
−Removed: There are no terms in any agreements or arrangements, implicit or explicit, which require the Company or its subsidiaries
−Removed: to provide financial support to the VIE.
−Removed: However, if the VIE does require financial support, the Company or its subsidiaries may,
−Removed: at its option and subject to statutory limits and restrictions, provide financial support to the VIE.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: The Company and its consolidated subsidiaries
+Added: are not required to provide financial support to the VIE, and no creditor (or beneficial interest holders) of the VIE have recourse
+Added: to the assets of Company unless the Company separately agrees to be subject to such claims.
+Added: There are no terms in any agreements
+Added: or arrangements, implicit or explicit, which require the Company or its subsidiaries to provide financial support to the VIE.
+Added: if the VIE does require financial support, the Company or its subsidiaries may, at its option and subject to statutory limits and
+Added: restrictions, provide financial support to the VIE.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
(2) Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies
−Removed: accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations
−Removed: of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for reporting on Form 10-Q.
−Removed: Accordingly, certain information and
−Removed: notes required by the United States of America generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for annual financial
−Removed: statements are not included herein.
−Removed: These interim statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements
−Removed: and notes thereto included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 of the Company, and its
−Removed: subsidiaries and variable interest entity (which we sometimes refer to collectively as “the Company”, “we”,
−Removed: “us”
+Added: The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated
+Added: financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission
+Added: (“SEC”) for reporting on Form 10-Q.
+Added: Accordingly, certain information and notes required by the United States of America
+Added: generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for annual financial statements are not included herein.
+Added: These interim
+Added: statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Annual Report
+Added: on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 of the Company, and its subsidiaries and variable interest entity (which
+Added: we sometimes refer to collectively as “the Company”, “we”, “us”
or “our”).
−Removed: of Consolidation
−Removed: unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, which are, in the opinion of management, necessary
−Removed: for a fair presentation of our financial position and results of operations.
−Removed: Such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature,
−Removed: unless otherwise noted.
−Removed: The balance sheet as of September 30, 2019 and the results of operations for the nine months ended September
−Removed: 30, 2019 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any future period.
−Removed: unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP.
−Removed: These accounting principles require
−Removed: us to make certain estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure
−Removed: of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses
−Removed: during the reporting period.
−Removed: We believe that the estimates, judgments and assumptions are reasonable, based on information available
−Removed: at the time they are made.
−Removed: Actual results could differ materially from those estimates.
−Removed: of long-lived asset
−Removed: Company reviews the carrying value of long-lived assets to be held and used when events and circumstances warrants such a review.
−Removed: The carrying value of a long-lived asset is considered impaired when the anticipated undiscounted cash flow from such asset is
−Removed: separately identifiable and is less than its carrying value.
−Removed: In that event, a loss is recognized based on the amount by which
−Removed: the carrying value exceeds the fair market value of the long-lived asset and intangible assets.
−Removed: Fair market value is determined
−Removed: primarily using the anticipated cash flows discounted at a rate commensurate with the risk involved.
−Removed: Losses on long-lived assets
−Removed: and intangible assets to be disposed are determined in a similar manner, except that fair market values are reduced for the cost
−Removed: Value Measurements
−Removed: Company has adopted ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, which defines fair value, establishes a framework
−Removed: for measuring fair value in GAAP, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements.
−Removed: It does not require any new fair value
−Removed: measurements, but provides guidance on how to measure fair value by providing a fair value hierarchy used to classify the source
−Removed: of the information.
−Removed: It establishes a three-level valuation hierarchy of valuation techniques based on observable and unobservable
−Removed: inputs, which may be used to measure fair value and include the following:
−Removed: 1 - Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
−Removed: 2 - Inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or
−Removed: quoted prices in markets that are not active;
−Removed: or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable
−Removed: market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
−Removed: 3 - Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets
−Removed: or liabilities.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: Classification
−Removed: within the hierarchy is determined based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
−Removed: Company estimates the fair value of financial instruments using the available market information and valuation methods.
−Removed: judgment is required in estimating fair value.
−Removed: Accordingly, the estimates of fair value may not be indicative of the amounts that
−Removed: the Company could realize in a current market exchange.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the carrying value of
−Removed: the Company’s short term financial instruments, such as cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts and notes
−Removed: payable, short-term bank loans, balance due to a related party and obligation under capital lease, approximate at their fair values
−Removed: because of the short maturity of these instruments;
−Removed: while loans from credit union and loans from a related party approximate at
−Removed: their fair value as the interest rates thereon are close to the market rates of interest published by the People’s Bank
−Removed: Company does not have any assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of September 30, 2019 and December
−Removed: Non-Recurring
+Added: Principles of Consolidation
+Added: Our unaudited condensed consolidated
+Added: financial statements reflect all adjustments, which are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair presentation of
+Added: our financial position and results of operations.
+Added: Such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature, unless otherwise noted.
+Added: The balance sheet as of March 31, 2020 and the results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2020 are not
+Added: necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any future period.
+Added: Our unaudited condensed consolidated financial
+Added: statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP.
+Added: These accounting principles require us to make certain estimates, judgments and
+Added: assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the
+Added: date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.
+Added: We believe that
+Added: the estimates, judgments and assumptions are reasonable, based on information available at the time they are made.
+Added: Actual results
+Added: could differ materially from those estimates.
+Added: Valuation of long-lived asset
+Added: The Company reviews the carrying value
+Added: of long-lived assets to be held and used when events and circumstances warrants such a review.
+Added: The carrying value of a long-lived
+Added: asset is considered impaired when the anticipated undiscounted cash flow from such asset is separately identifiable and is less
+Added: than its carrying value.
+Added: In that event, a loss is recognized based on the amount by which the carrying value exceeds the fair market
+Added: value of the long-lived asset and intangible assets.
+Added: Fair market value is determined primarily using the anticipated cash flows
+Added: discounted at a rate commensurate with the risk involved.
+Added: Losses on long-lived assets and intangible assets to be disposed are
+Added: determined in a similar manner, except that fair market values are reduced for the cost to dispose.
Fair Value Measurements
−Removed: Company reviews long-lived assets for impairment annually or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate the
−Removed: possibility of impairment.
−Removed: For the continuing operations, long-lived assets are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis
−Removed: when there is an indicator of impairment, and they are recorded at fair value only when impairment is recognized.
−Removed: For discontinued
−Removed: operations, long-lived assets are measured at the lower of carrying amount or fair value less cost to sell.
−Removed: The fair value of
−Removed: these assets were determined using models with significant unobservable inputs which were classified as Level 3 inputs, primarily
−Removed: the discounted future cash flow.
−Removed: Company uses the fair value recognition provision of ASC Topic 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation , which requires the
−Removed: Company to expense the cost of employee services received in exchange for an award of equity instruments based on the grant date
−Removed: fair value of such instruments over the vesting period.
−Removed: Company also applies the provisions of ASC Topic 505-50, Equity Based Payments to Non-Employees to account for
−Removed: stock-based compensation awards issued to non-employees for services.
−Removed: Such awards for services are recorded at either the fair
−Removed: value of the consideration received or the fair value of the instruments issued in exchange for such services, whichever is more
−Removed: reliably measurable.
−Removed: and Going Concern
−Removed: of September 30, 2019 the Company had current assets of $20,574,314 and current liabilities of $61,014,652 (including amounts
−Removed: due to related parties of $766,544 and interest payable for related party loans of $668,338), resulting in a working capital deficit
−Removed: of approximately $40,440,338;
−Removed: as of December 31, 2018, the Company had current assets of $24,158,872 and current liabilities of
−Removed: $29,634,267 (including amounts due to related parties of $1,030,790), resulting in a working capital deficit of approximately
−Removed: The deficit as of September 30, 2019 was mainly attributed to the payable for acquisition of Hebei Tengsheng.
−Removed: 25, 2019, Dongfang Paper entered into an acquisition agreement with shareholder of Hebei Tengsheng, to buy up 100% shares of Hebei
−Removed: Tengsheng with a purchase price of RMB 320 million (approximately $45 million).
−Removed: The payable will be due by December 25, 2019.
−Removed: If the amount is not fully paid off, the seller is offered an option to convert the outstanding amount to shares of the Company.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019, acquisition payable was $43,507,826, which was included in the current liabilities in the consolidated
−Removed: balance sheet.
+Added: The Company has adopted ASC Topic 820,
+Added: Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, which defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in GAAP, and
+Added: expands disclosures about fair value measurements.
+Added: It does not require any new fair value measurements, but provides guidance on
+Added: how to measure fair value by providing a fair value hierarchy used to classify the source of the information.
+Added: It establishes a
+Added: three-level valuation hierarchy of valuation techniques based on observable and unobservable inputs, which may be used to measure
+Added: fair value and include the following:
+Added: Level 1 - Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets
+Added: or liabilities.
+Added: Level 2 - Inputs other than Level 1 that
+Added: are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities;
+Added: quoted prices in markets
+Added: that are not active;
+Added: or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the
+Added: full term of the assets or liabilities.
+Added: Level 3 - Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or
+Added: no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
+Added: Classification within the hierarchy is determined based on the
+Added: lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
+Added: The Company estimates the fair value of
+Added: financial instruments using the available market information and valuation methods.
+Added: Considerable judgment is required in estimating
+Added: Accordingly, the estimates of fair value may not be indicative of the amounts that the Company could realize in a current
+Added: market exchange.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the carrying value of the Company’s short term financial instruments,
+Added: such as cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts and notes payable, short-term bank loans, balance due to a related
+Added: party and obligation under capital lease, approximate at their fair values because of the short maturity of these instruments;
+Added: while loans from credit union and loans from a related party approximate at their fair value as the interest rates thereon are
+Added: close to the market rates of interest published by the People’s Bank of China.
+Added: The Company does not have any assets and liabilities measured
+Added: at fair value on a recurring basis as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019.
+Added: Non-Recurring Fair Value Measurements
+Added: The Company reviews long-lived assets for
+Added: impairment annually or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate the possibility of impairment.
+Added: For the continuing
+Added: operations, long-lived assets are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis when there is an indicator of impairment, and
+Added: they are recorded at fair value only when impairment is recognized.
+Added: For discontinued operations, long-lived assets are measured
+Added: at the lower of carrying amount or fair value less cost to sell.
+Added: The fair value of these assets were determined using models with
+Added: significant unobservable inputs which were classified as Level 3 inputs, primarily the discounted future cash flow.
+Added: Share-Based Compensation
+Added: The Company uses the fair value recognition
+Added: provision of ASC Topic 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation , which requires the Company to expense the cost of employee
+Added: services received in exchange for an award of equity instruments based on the grant date fair value of such instruments over the
+Added: vesting period.
+Added: The Company also applies the provisions
+Added: of ASC Topic 505-50, Equity Based Payments to Non-Employees to account for stock-based compensation awards issued to non-employees
+Added: for services.
+Added: Such awards for services are recorded at either the fair value of the consideration received or the fair value of
+Added: the instruments issued in exchange for such services, whichever is more reliably measurable.
(3) Restricted Cash
−Removed: cash was nil as of September 30, 2019.
−Removed: Restricted cash of $3,642,616 as of December 31, 2018 was presented for the cash deposited
−Removed: at the Bank of Cangzhou for purpose of securing the bank acceptance notes from these banks (see Note (9)).
−Removed: The restriction has
−Removed: been lifted upon the maturity of the notes payable on January 10, 2019.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: materials inventory includes mainly recycled paper board and recycled white scrap paper.
−Removed: Finished goods include mainly products
−Removed: of corrugating medium paper, offset printing paper and tissue paper products.
−Removed: Inventories consisted of the following as of
−Removed: September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018:
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: Restricted cash was nil as of March 31,
+Added: 2020 and December 31, 2019.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
+Added: (4) Inventories
+Added: Raw materials inventory includes mainly recycled paper board
+Added: and recycled white scrap paper.
+Added: Finished goods include mainly products of corrugating medium paper, offset printing paper and tissue
+Added: paper products.
+Added: Inventories consisted of the following as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019:
Raw Materials
4 unchanged sentences
Finished Goods
+Added: Total inventory, gross
+Added: Inventory reserve
+Added: Total inventory, net
(5) Prepayments and other current assets
−Removed: and other current assets consisted of the following as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018:
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: Prepayments and other current assets consisted of the following
+Added: as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019:
Prepaid land lease
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(6) Property, plant and equipment, net
−Removed: of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, property, plant and equipment consisted of the following:
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, property, plant
+Added: and equipment consisted of the following:
Property, Plant, and Equipment:
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$ 151,616,852
−Removed: of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, land use rights represented two parcel of state-owned lands located in Xushui District
−Removed: and Wei County of Hebei Province in China, with lease terms of 50 years expiring from 2061 to 2066.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: in progress mainly represents payments for improvement of the office building and essentially all industrial-use buildings in
−Removed: the Headquarters Compound (the “Industrial Buildings”).
−Removed: of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, certain property, plant and equipment of Dongfang Paper with net values of $4,313,899
−Removed: and $5,782,640, respectively, have been pledged pursuant to a long-term loan from credit union for Dongfang Paper.
−Removed: Land use right
−Removed: of Dongfang Paper with net values of $5,712,365 and $5,990,586 as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018 were pledged for
−Removed: the bank loan from Industrial & Commercial Bank of China.
−Removed: Land use right of Hebei Tengsheng with net value of $3,262,677 has
−Removed: been pledged for a bank loan from Industrial & Commercial Bank of China to Dongfang Paper and another piece of land with a
−Removed: net value of $5,129,352 has been pledged for a long-term loan from credit union to Baoding Shengde.
−Removed: bank loans ”
−Removed: and Long-term loans from credit union under Note (7), Loans Payable, for details of the transaction
−Removed: and asset collaterals.
−Removed: and amortization of property, plant and equipment was $3,758,191 and $3,462,703 for the three months ended September 30, 2019
−Removed: and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: Depreciation and amortization of property, plant and equipment was $11,547,650 and $10,873,536 for
−Removed: the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019,
+Added: land use rights represented two parcel of state-owned lands located in Xushui District and Wei County of Hebei Province in China,
+Added: with lease terms of 50 years expiring in 2061 and 2066, respectively.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
+Added: Construction in progress mainly represents
+Added: payments for improvement of the office building and essentially all industrial-use buildings in the Headquarters Compound (the
+Added: “Industrial Buildings”).
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019,
+Added: certain property, plant and equipment of Dongfang Paper with net values of $3,443,097 and $3,935,270, respectively, have been pledged
+Added: pursuant to a long-term loan from credit union for Dongfang Paper.
+Added: Land use right of Dongfang Paper with net values of $5,635,572
+Added: and $5,757,546 as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, was pledged for the bank loan from Industrial & Commercial
+Added: Bank of China.
+Added: Land use right of Hebei Tengsheng with net value of $5,120,520 and $5,200,452 as of March 31, 2020 and December
+Added: 31, 2019, respectively, was pledged for a long-term loan from credit union of Baoding Shengde.
+Added: In addition, land use right of Hebei
+Added: Tengsheng with net value of $7,933,093 and $8,056,930 as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, was pledged for
+Added: another long-term loan from credit union of Baoding Shengde.
+Added: Short-term bank loans ”
+Added: and Long-term loans
+Added: from credit union under Note (7), Loans Payable, for details of the transaction and asset collaterals.
+Added: Depreciation and amortization of property,
+Added: plant and equipment was $3,774,674 and $3,930,060 for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
(7) Loans Payable
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: Short-term bank loans
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (“ICBC”) Loan 1
−Removed: Bank of Cangzhou
Total short-term bank loans
−Removed: February 6, 2018, the Company entered into a working capital loan agreement with the
−Removed: ICBC, with a balance of $4,079,730 as of December 31, 2018.
−Removed: The working capital
−Removed: loan was guaranteed by Hebei Tengsheng with its land use right pledged as collateral
−Removed: for the benefit of the bank.
−Removed: The loan bears a fixed interest rate of 5.4% per annum.
−Removed: The loan was due and repaid on January 28, 2019.
−Removed: January 2, 2018, the Company entered into a working capital loan agreement with the Bank
−Removed: of Cangzhou, with a balance of $5,099,662 as of December 31, 2018.
−Removed: The loan bore a fixed
−Removed: interest rate of 6.09% per annum.
−Removed: The working capital loan was secured by the Company’s
−Removed: land use right and guaranteed by the Company’s CEO and Baoding Shengde with its
−Removed: production equipment as collateral for the benefit of the bank.
−Removed: The loan was due and
−Removed: repaid on January 3, 2019.
−Removed: November 22, 2018, the Company entered into a working capital loan agreement with the ICBC, with a balance of $2,544,925 and
−Removed: $2,622,683 as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: The working capital loan is secured by the Company’s
−Removed: land use right as collateral for the benefit of the bank.
−Removed: The loan bears a fixed interest rate of 4.741% per annum.
−Removed: will be due by November 26, 2019.
−Removed: January 28, 2019, the Company entered into a working capital loan agreement with the ICBC, with a balance of $3,817,387 as
−Removed: of September 30, 2019.
−Removed: The working capital loan was guaranteed by Hebei Tengsheng with its land use right pledged as collateral
−Removed: for the benefit of the bank.
−Removed: The loan bears a fixed interest rate of 4.785% per annum.
−Removed: The loan will be due and repaid by
−Removed: January 30, 2020.
−Removed: of September 30, 2019, there were guaranteed short-term borrowings of $6,362,312 and unsecured bank loans of $nil.
−Removed: As of December
−Removed: 31, 2018, there were guaranteed short-term borrowings of $11,802,075 and unsecured bank loans of $nil.
−Removed: average short-term borrowing rates for the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were approximately 4.77% and 5.59%,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: The average short-term borrowing rates for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were approximately
−Removed: 4.76% and 5.58%, respectively.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: loans from credit union
−Removed: of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, loans payable to Rural Credit Union of Xushui District, amounted to $7,012,682 and
−Removed: $7,197,808, respectively.
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: December 20, 2019, the Company entered into a working capital loan agreement with the ICBC, with a balance of $6,069,075
+Added: and $6,163,814 as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
+Added: The working capital loan was secured by land use right of Hebei Tengsheng as collateral for the benefit of the bank.
+Added: The loan bears
+Added: a fixed interest rate of 4.785% per annum.
+Added: The loan will be due and repaid by December 23, 2020.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020, there were guaranteed short-term borrowings
+Added: of $6,069,075 and unsecured bank loans of $nil.
+Added: As of December 31, 2019, there were guaranteed short-term borrowings of $6,163,814
+Added: and unsecured bank loans of $nil.
+Added: The average short-term borrowing rates for the three months
+Added: ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 were approximately 4.79% and 4.76%, respectively.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
+Added: Long-term loans from credit union
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019,
+Added: loans payable to Rural Credit Union of Xushui District, amounted to $8,835,443 and $8,973,367, respectively.
Rural Credit Union of Xushui District Loan 1
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Long-term loans from credit union
−Removed: of September 30, 2019, the Company’s long-term debt repayments for the next five years were as follows:
+Added: As of March 31, 2020, the Company’s long-term
+Added: debt repayments for the next five years were as follows:
Remainder of 2020
−Removed: April 16, 2014, the Company entered into a loan agreement with the Rural Credit Union of Xushui District for a term of 5 years,
−Removed: which was originally due in various installments from June 21, 2014 to November 18, 2018.
−Removed: The loan is guaranteed by an independent
−Removed: Interest payment is due quarterly and bears the rate of 0.64% per month.
−Removed: On November 6, 2018, the loan was renewed
−Removed: for additional 5 years and will be due and payable in various installments from December 21, 2018 to November 5, 2023.
−Removed: As of September
−Removed: 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, total outstanding loan balance was $1,215,909 and $1,253,060, respectively.
+Added: On April 16, 2014, the Company entered
+Added: into a loan agreement with the Rural Credit Union of Xushui District for a term of 5 years, which was originally due in various
+Added: installments from June 21, 2014 to November 18, 2018.
+Added: The loan is guaranteed by an independent third party.
+Added: Interest payment is
+Added: due quarterly and bears the rate of 0.64% per month.
+Added: On November 6, 2018, the loan was renewed for additional 5 years and will
+Added: be due and payable in various installments from December 21, 2018 to November 5, 2023.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019,
+Added: total outstanding loan balance was $1,213,815 and $1,232,763, respectively.
+Added: Out of the total outstanding loan balance, current
+Added: portion amounted were $141,141 and $143,345 as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, which are presented as current
+Added: liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and the remaining balance of $1,072,674 and $1,089,418 are presented as non-current
+Added: liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
+Added: On July 15, 2013, the Company entered into
+Added: a loan agreement with the Rural Credit Union of Xushui District for a term of 5 years, which was originally due and payable in
+Added: various installments from December 21, 2013 to July 26, 2018.
+Added: On June 21, 2018, the loan was extended for additional 5 years and
+Added: will be due and payable in various installments from December 21, 2018 to June 20, 2023.
+Added: The loan is secured by certain of the
+Added: Company’s manufacturing equipment with net book value of $3,443,097 and $3,935,270 as of March 31, 2020 and December 31,
+Added: 2019, respectively.
+Added: Interest payment is due quarterly and bears a fixed rate of 0.64% per month.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December
+Added: 31, 2019, the total outstanding loan balance was $3,528,532 and $3,583,613, respectively.
+Added: Out of the total outstanding loan balance,
+Added: current portion amounted were $169,370 and $172,013 as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, which are presented
+Added: as current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and the remaining balance of $3,359,162 and $3,411,600 are presented as
+Added: non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
+Added: On April 17, 2019, the Company entered
+Added: into a loan agreement with the Rural Credit Union of Xushui District for a term of 2 years, which was due and payable in various
+Added: installments from August 21, 2019 to April 16, 2021.
+Added: The loan is secured by Hebei Tengsheng with its land use right as collateral
+Added: for the benefit of the bank.
+Added: Interest payment is due quarterly and bears a fixed rate of 0.6% per month.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and
+Added: December 31, 2019, the total outstanding loan balance was $2,258,260 and $2,293,512, respectively.
Out of the total outstanding
−Removed: loan balance, current portion amounted were $113,108 and $87,423 as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively,
+Added: loan balance, current portion amounted were $1,129,130 and $1,146,756 as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively,
which are presented as current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and the remaining balance of $1,129,130 and $1,146,756
−Removed: are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: July 15, 2013, the Company entered into a loan agreement with the Rural Credit Union of Xushui District for a term of 5 years,
−Removed: which was originally due and payable in various installments from December 21, 2013 to July 26, 2018.
−Removed: On June 21, 2018, the loan
−Removed: was extended for additional 5 years and will be due and payable in various installments from December 21, 2018 to June 20, 2023.
−Removed: The loan is secured by certain of the Company’s manufacturing equipment with net book value of $4,313,899 and $5,782,640
−Removed: as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: Interest payment is due quarterly and bears a fixed rate of 0.64%
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the total outstanding loan balance was $3,534,617 and $3,642,615, respectively.
−Removed: Out of the total outstanding loan balance, current portion amounted were $127,246 and $101,993 as of September 30, 2019 and December
−Removed: 31, 2018, respectively, which are presented as current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and the remaining balance
−Removed: of $3,407,371 and $3,540,622 are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2019
−Removed: and December 31, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: April 20, 2017, the Company entered into a loan agreement with the Rural Credit Union of Xushui District for a term of 2 years,
−Removed: which was due and payable in various installments from August 26, 2017 to April 19, 2019.
−Removed: The loan was guaranteed by Hebei Tengsheng
−Removed: with its land use right pledged as collateral for the benefit of the bank.
−Removed: Interest payment was due quarterly and bore a fixed
−Removed: rate of 0.6% per month.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the total outstanding loan balance was $nil and $2,302,133,
−Removed: respectively, which are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2019 and December
−Removed: 31, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: April 17, 2019, the Company entered into a loan agreement with the Rural Credit Union of Xushui District for a term of 2 years,
−Removed: which was due and payable in various installments from August 21, 2019 to April 16, 2021.
−Removed: The loan is secured by Hebei Tengsheng
−Removed: with its land use right as collateral for the benefit of the bank.
−Removed: Interest payment is due quarterly and bears a fixed rate of
−Removed: 0.6% per month.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the total outstanding loan balance was $2,262,156 and $nil, respectively.
−Removed: Out of the total outstanding loan balance, current portion amounted were $70,692 and $nil as of September 30, 2019 and December
−Removed: 31, 2018, respectively, which are presented as current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and the remaining balance
−Removed: of $2,191,464 and $nil are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2019 and
−Removed: December 31, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: interest expenses for the short-term bank loans and long-term loans for the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were
−Removed: $214,907 and $328,955, respectively.
−Removed: Total interest expenses for the short-term bank loans and long-term loans for the nine
−Removed: months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were $445,860 and $620,294, respectively.
+Added: are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
+Added: On December 12, 2019, the Company entered
+Added: into a loan agreement with the Rural Credit Union of Xushui District for a term of 2 years, which was due and payable in various
+Added: installments from June 21, 2020 to December 11, 2021.
+Added: The loan is secured by Hebei Tengsheng with its land use right as collateral
+Added: for the benefit of the bank.
+Added: Interest payment is due monthly and bears a fixed rate of 7.56% per annum.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and
+Added: December 31, 2019, the total outstanding loan balance was $1,834,836 and $1,863,479, respectively.
+Added: Out of the total outstanding
+Added: loan balance, current portion amounted were $141,141 and $143,345 as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, which
+Added: are presented as current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and the remaining balance of $1,693,695 and $1,720,134
+Added: are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
+Added: Total interest expenses for the short-term
+Added: bank loans and long-term loans for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 were $244,718 and $230,953, respectively.
(8) Related Party Transactions
−Removed: Zhenyong Liu, the Company’s CEO has loaned money to Dongfang Paper for working capital purposes over a period of time.
−Removed: January 1, 2013, Dongfang Paper and Mr.
−Removed: Zhenyong Liu renewed the three-year term loan previously entered on January 1, 2010, and
−Removed: extended the maturity date further to December 31, 2015.
−Removed: On December 31, 2015, the Company paid off the loan of $2,249,279, together
−Removed: with interest of $391,374 for the period from 2013 to 2015.
−Removed: Approximately $362,417 and $373,490 of interest were outstanding to
−Removed: Zhenyong Liu, which were recorded in other payables and accrued liabilities as part of the current liabilities in the consolidated
−Removed: balance sheet as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: December 10, 2014, Mr.
−Removed: Zhenyong Liu provided a loan to the Company, amounted to $8,483,083 to Dongfang Paper for working capital
−Removed: purpose with an interest rate of 4.35% per annum, which was based on the primary lending rate of People’s Bank of China.
−Removed: The unsecured loan was provided on December 10, 2014, and would be originally due on December 10, 2017.
−Removed: During the year of 2016,
−Removed: the Company repaid $6,012,416 to Mr.
−Removed: Zhenyong Liu, together with interest of $288,596.
−Removed: In February 2018, the company paid off
−Removed: the remaining balance, together with interest of $20,400.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, approximately $42,415
−Removed: and $43,711 of interest were outstanding to Mr.
−Removed: Zhenyong Liu, which was recorded in other payables and accrued liabilities as
−Removed: part of the current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet.
−Removed: March 1, 2015, the Company entered an agreement with Mr.
−Removed: Zhenyong Liu which allows Dongfang Paper to borrow from the CEO an amount
−Removed: up to $16,966,167 (RMB120,000,000) for working capital purposes.
−Removed: The advances or funding under the agreement are due three years
−Removed: from the date each amount is funded.
−Removed: The loan is unsecured and carries an annual interest rate set on the basis of the primary
−Removed: lending rate of the People’s Bank of China at the time of the borrowing.
−Removed: On July 13, 2015, an unsecured amount of $4,324,636
−Removed: was drawn from the facility.
−Removed: On October 14, 2016 an unsecured amount of $2,883,091 was drawn from the facility.
−Removed: In February 2018,
−Removed: the company repaid $1,507,432 to Mr.
+Added: Zhenyong Liu, the Company’s CEO
+Added: has loaned money to Dongfang Paper for working capital purposes over a period of time.
+Added: On January 1, 2013, Dongfang Paper and Mr.
+Added: Zhenyong Liu renewed the three-year term loan previously entered on January 1, 2010, and extended the maturity date further to
+Added: December 31, 2015.
+Added: On December 31, 2015, the Company paid off the loan of $2,249,279, together with interest of $391,374 for the
+Added: period from 2013 to 2015.
+Added: Approximately $361,793 and $367,441 of interest were outstanding to Mr.
+Added: Zhenyong Liu, which were recorded
+Added: in other payables and accrued liabilities as part of the current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31,
+Added: 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
+Added: On December 10, 2014, Mr.
+Added: provided a loan to the Company, amounted to $8,483,083 to Dongfang Paper for working capital purpose with an interest rate of 4.35%
+Added: per annum, which was based on the primary lending rate of People’s Bank of China.
+Added: The unsecured loan was provided on December
+Added: 10, 2014, and would be originally due on December 10, 2017.
+Added: During the year of 2016, the Company repaid $6,012,416 to Mr.
+Added: Liu, together with interest of $288,596.
+Added: In February 2018, the company paid off the remaining balance, together with interest of
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, approximately $42,342 and $43,003 of interest were outstanding to Mr.
+Added: Liu, which was recorded in other payables and accrued liabilities as part of the current liabilities in the consolidated balance
+Added: On March 1, 2015, the Company entered an
+Added: agreement with Mr.
+Added: Zhenyong Liu which allows Dongfang Paper to borrow from the CEO an amount up to $16,936,952 (RMB120,000,000)
+Added: for working capital purposes.
+Added: The advances or funding under the agreement are due three years from the date each amount is funded.
+Added: The loan is unsecured and carries an annual interest rate set on the basis of the primary lending rate of the People’s Bank
+Added: of China at the time of the borrowing.
+Added: On July 13, 2015, an unsecured amount of $4,324,636 was drawn from the facility.
+Added: 14, 2016 an unsecured amount of $2,883,091 was drawn from the facility.
+Added: In February 2018, the company repaid $1,507,432 to Mr.
Zhenyong Liu.
The loan would be originally due on July 12, 2018.
−Removed: Zhenyong Liu agreed
−Removed: to extend the loan for additional 3 years and the remaining balance will be due on July 12, 2021.
−Removed: On November 23, 2018, the company
−Removed: repaid $3,768,579 to Mr.
−Removed: Zhenyong Liu, together with interest of $158,651.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the
−Removed: outstanding loan balance were $2,120,771 and $2,185,569, respectively, and the accrued interest was $263,506 and $200,253, respectively,
−Removed: which was recorded in other payables and accrued liabilities as part of the current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet.
−Removed: of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, total amount of loans due to Mr.
−Removed: Zhenyong Liu were $2,120,771 and $2,185,569, respectively.
−Removed: The interest expense incurred for such related party loans are $23,234 and $62,130 for the three months ended September 30, 2019
−Removed: and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: The interest expenses incurred for such related party loans are $71,415 and $252,829 for the nine months
−Removed: ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: The accrued interest owed to the CEO was approximately $668,338 and $617,454,
−Removed: as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively, which was recorded in other payables and accrued liabilities.
−Removed: of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, amount due to shareholder are $319,129 and $210,148, respectively, which represents
−Removed: funds from shareholders to pay for various expenses incurred in the U.S.
+Added: Zhenyong Liu agreed to extend the loan for additional 3 years
+Added: and the remaining balance will be due on July 12, 2021.
+Added: On November 23, 2018, the company repaid $3,768,579 to Mr.
+Added: Zhenyong Liu,
+Added: together with interest of $158,651.
+Added: In December 2019, the company paid off the remaining balance, together with interest of 94,636.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the outstanding loan balance were $nil and the accrued interest was $193,981 and $197,009,
+Added: respectively, which was recorded in other payables and accrued liabilities as part of the current liabilities in the consolidated
+Added: balance sheet.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019,
+Added: total amount of loans due to Mr.
+Added: Zhenyong Liu were $nil.
+Added: The interest expense incurred for such related party loans are $nil and
+Added: $24,316 for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: The accrued interest owed to the CEO was approximately
+Added: $598,116 and $607,453, as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, which was recorded in other payables and accrued
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019,
+Added: amount due to shareholder are $617,433 and $483,433, respectively, which represents funds from shareholders to pay for various
+Added: expenses incurred in the U.S.
The amount is due on demand with interest free.
−Removed: of Headquarters Compound Real Properties from a Related Party
−Removed: August 7, 2013, the Company’s Audit Committee and the Board of Directors approved the sale of the land use right of the
−Removed: Headquarters Compound (the “LUR”), the office building and essentially all industrial-use buildings in the Headquarters
−Removed: Compound (the “Industrial Buildings”), and three employee dormitory buildings located within the Headquarters Compound
−Removed: (the “Dormitories”) to Hebei Fangsheng for cash prices of approximately $2.77 million, $1.15 million, and $4.31 million,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: Sales of the LUR and the Industrial Buildings were completed in year 2013.
−Removed: connection with the sale of the Industrial Buildings, Hebei Fangsheng agreed to lease the Industrial Buildings back to the Company
−Removed: for its original use for a term of up to three years, with an annual rental payment of approximately $145,930 (RMB1,000,000).
+Added: Lease of Headquarters Compound Real Properties from a Related
+Added: On August 7, 2013, the Company’s
+Added: Audit Committee and the Board of Directors approved the sale of the land use right of the Headquarters Compound (the “LUR”),
+Added: the office building and essentially all industrial-use buildings in the Headquarters Compound (the “Industrial Buildings”),
+Added: and three employee dormitory buildings located within the Headquarters Compound (the “Dormitories”) to Hebei Fangsheng
+Added: for cash prices of approximately $2.77 million, $1.15 million, and $4.31 million, respectively.
+Added: Sales of the LUR and the Industrial
+Added: Buildings were completed in year 2013.
+Added: In connection with the sale of the Industrial
+Added: Buildings, Hebei Fangsheng agreed to lease the Industrial Buildings back to the Company for its original use for a term of up to
+Added: three years, with an annual rental payment of approximately $142,998 (RMB1,000,000).
The lease agreement expired in August 2016.
−Removed: On August 6, 2016 and August 6, 2018, the Company entered into two supplementary agreements
−Removed: with Hebei Fangsheng, who agreed to extend the lease term for another four years in total, with the same rental payment as original
−Removed: lease agreement.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: Notes payable
−Removed: payable was nil as of September 30, 2019.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2018, the Company had bank acceptance notes of $3,642,616 from the
−Removed: Bank of Cangzhou to one of its major suppliers for settling purchase of raw materials.
−Removed: The acceptance notes are used to essentially
−Removed: extend the payment of accounts payable and are issued under the banking facilities obtained from bank as well as the restricted
−Removed: bank deposit of $3,642,616 in the bank as mentioned in Note (3).
−Removed: The bank acceptance notes from the bank bore interest rate at
−Removed: nil% per annum and 0.05% of notes amount as handling charge.
−Removed: The acceptance notes were due and paid off in January 2019.
+Added: On August 6, 2016 and August 6, 2018, the Company entered into two supplementary agreements with Hebei Fangsheng, who agreed to
+Added: extend the lease term for another four years in total, with the same rental payment as original lease agreement.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
(9) Other payables and accrued liabilities
−Removed: payables and accrued liabilities consist of the following:
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: Other payables and accrued liabilities consist of the following:
Accrued electricity
3 unchanged sentences
Accrued commission to salesmen
−Removed: Payable for acquisition of Hebei Tengsheng
−Removed: of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, others mainly included $1,028,453 and $nil, respectively, amount due to the former
−Removed: shareholders of Hebei Tengsheng.
−Removed: The amount represents funds to pay off expenditures incurred for the startup operation of Hebei
−Removed: Tengsheng and due on demand with interest free.
−Removed: of common stock to investors
−Removed: August 27, 2014, the Company issued 1,562,500 shares of our common stock and warrants to purchase up to 781,250 shares of our
−Removed: common stock (the “Offering”).
+Added: Accrued bank loan interest
+Added: (10) Common Stock
+Added: Issuance of common stock to investors
+Added: On August 27, 2014, the Company issued
+Added: 1,562,500 shares of our common stock and warrants to purchase up to 781,250 shares of our common stock (the “Offering”).
Each share of common stock and accompanying warrant was sold at a price of $1.60.
−Removed: refer to Note (12), Stock Warrants, for details.
−Removed: of common stock pursuant to the 2012 Incentive Stock Plan and 2015 Omnibus Equity Incentive
−Removed: January 12, 2016, the Company granted an aggregate of 1,133,916 shares of common stock under its compensatory incentive plans
−Removed: to nine officers, directors and employees of and a consultant when the stock was at $1.25 per share, as compensation for their
−Removed: services in the past years, of which 168,416 shares of common stock were granted under the 2012 Incentive Stock Plan and 965,500
−Removed: shares were granted under the 2015 Omnibus Equity Incentive.
+Added: Issuance of common stock pursuant to the 2012 Incentive Stock
+Added: Plan and 2015 Omnibus Equity Incentive
+Added: On January 12, 2016, the Company granted
+Added: an aggregate of 1,133,916 shares of common stock under its compensatory incentive plans to nine officers, directors and employees
+Added: of and a consultant when the stock was at $1.25 per share, as compensation for their services in the past years, of which 168,416
+Added: shares of common stock were granted under the 2012 Incentive Stock Plan and 965,500 shares were granted under the 2015 Omnibus
+Added: Equity Incentive.
Please see Note (14), Stock Incentive Plans for more details.
−Removed: fair value of the stock was calculated at $1,417,395 as of the date of grant.
−Removed: September 13, 2018, the compensation committee granted an aggregate of 534,500 shares of common stock at $0.88 per share to fifteen
−Removed: officers, directors and employees of the Company, which were granted under the 2015 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan.
−Removed: value of the shares of common stock granted was calculated at $470,360 as of the date of issuance.
−Removed: of common stock to Weitian
−Removed: October 15, 2018, the Company entered an agreement with Weitian Group LCC (“Weitian”) and agreed as compensation to
−Removed: issue to Weitian in the aggregate of 70,000 shares of common stock for investor relation consulting service rendered from October
−Removed: 15, 2018 to October 15, 2019.
−Removed: 37,500 shares of common stock were issued to Weitain on November 12, 2018.
−Removed: Total fair value of the
−Removed: shares of common stock granted was calculated at $32,625 at $0.87 per share.
−Removed: 32,500 shares of common stock were issued to Weitain
−Removed: on August 13, 2019.
+Added: Total fair value of the stock was calculated at
+Added: $1,417,395 as of the date of grant.
+Added: On September 13, 2018, the compensation
+Added: committee granted an aggregate of 534,500 shares of common stock at $0.88 per share to fifteen officers, directors and employees
+Added: of the Company, which were granted under the 2015 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan.
+Added: Total fair value of the shares of common stock
+Added: granted was calculated at $470,360 as of the date of issuance.
+Added: Issuance of common stock to Weitian
+Added: On October 15, 2018, the Company
+Added: entered an agreement with Weitian Group LCC (“Weitian”) and agreed as compensation to issue to Weitian in the
+Added: aggregate of 70,000 shares of common stock for investor relation consulting service rendered from October 15, 2018 to October
+Added: 37,500 shares of common stock were issued to Weitian on November 12, 2018.
+Added: Total fair value of the shares of common
+Added: stock granted was calculated at $32,625 at $0.87 per share.
+Added: 32,500 shares of common stock were issued to Weitian on August
Total fair value of the shares of common stock granted was calculated at $17,550 at $0.54 per share.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
(11) Earnings Per Share
−Removed: the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, basic and diluted net income per share are calculated as follows:
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, basic and
+Added: diluted net income per share are calculated as follows:
Three Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: Basic income (loss) per share
−Removed: Net income (loss) for the period - numerator
+Added: Basic loss per share
+Added: Net loss for the period - numerator
$ (2,436,287 )
+Added: $ (2,722,595 )
Weighted average common stock outstanding - denominator
−Removed: Net income (loss) per share
+Added: Net loss per share
Diluted income per share
1 unchanged sentence
$ (2,436,287 )
−Removed: Weighted average common stock outstanding - denominator
−Removed: Effect of dilution
−Removed: Weighted average common stock outstanding - denominator
−Removed: Diluted income (loss) per share
−Removed: the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, basic and diluted net income per share are calculated as follows:
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: Basic income (loss) per share
−Removed: Net income (loss) for the period –
$ (2,722,595 )
Weighted average common stock outstanding - denominator
−Removed: Net income (loss) per share
−Removed: Diluted income (loss) per share
−Removed: Net income (loss) for the period - numerator
−Removed: $ (5,381,244 )
−Removed: Weighted average common stock outstanding - denominator
Effect of dilution
Weighted average common stock outstanding - denominator
−Removed: Diluted income (loss) per share
−Removed: the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019, there were no securities with dilutive effect issued and outstanding.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: Company and Shengde Holdings are incorporated in the State of Nevada and are subject to the U.S.
−Removed: federal tax and state statutory
−Removed: tax rates up to 34% and 0%, respectively.
−Removed: On December 22, 2017, the U.S.
−Removed: enacted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “2017 TCJAAct”),
−Removed: which significantly changed U.S.
+Added: Diluted loss per share
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 there were
+Added: no securities with dilutive effect issued and outstanding.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
+Added: (12) Income Taxes
+Added: United States
+Added: The Company and Shengde Holdings are incorporated
+Added: in the State of Nevada and are subject to the U.S.
+Added: federal tax and state statutory tax rates up to 34% and 0%, respectively.
+Added: December 22, 2017, the U.S.
+Added: enacted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “2017 TCJAAct”), which significantly changed U.S.
The Act 2017 TCJA lowered the Company’s U.S.
−Removed: statutory federal income tax rate
−Removed: from the highest rate of 35% to 21% effective January 1, 2018, while also imposing a deemed repatriation tax on deferred foreign
−Removed: income which requires companies to pay a one-time transition tax on previously unremitted earnings of non-U.S.
−Removed: subsidiaries that
−Removed: were previously tax deferred and creates new taxes on certain foreign sourced earnings.
−Removed: The SEC staff issued Staff Accounting
−Removed: Bulletin (SAB) 118, which provides guidance on accounting for enactment effects of the 2017 TCJA.
−Removed: SAB 118 provides a measurement
−Removed: period of up to one year from the 2017 TCJA’s enactment date for companies to complete their accounting under ASC 740.
−Removed: accordance with SAB 118, to the extent that a company’s accounting for certain income tax effects of the 2017 TCJA is incomplete
−Removed: but it is able to determine a reasonable estimate, it must record a provisional estimate in its financial statements.
−Removed: cannot determine a provisional estimate to be included in its financial statements, it should continue to apply ASC 740 on the
−Removed: basis of the provisions of the tax laws that were in effect immediately before the enactment of the 2017 TCJA.
−Removed: connection with the Company’s initial analysis of the impact of the enactment of the 2017 TCJA, the Company recorded a net
−Removed: tax expense of approximately $80,000 in the fourth quarter of 2017.
−Removed: For various reasons that are discussed more fully below, including
−Removed: the issuance of additional technical and interpretive guidance, the Company has not completed its accounting for the income tax
−Removed: effects of certain elements of the 2017 TCJA.
−Removed: However, with respect to the following, the Company was able to make reasonable
−Removed: estimates of the 2017 TCJA’s effects and, as such, recorded provisional amounts:
−Removed: The transition tax is a tax on previously untaxed accumulated and current earnings and profits (E&P) of certain of the
−Removed: Company’s non-U.S.
+Added: statutory federal income tax rate from the highest rate of 35% to 21%
+Added: effective January 1, 2018, while also imposing a deemed repatriation tax on deferred foreign income which requires companies to
+Added: pay a one-time transition tax on previously unremitted earnings of non-U.S.
+Added: subsidiaries that were previously tax deferred and
+Added: creates new taxes on certain foreign sourced earnings.
+Added: The SEC staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) 118, which provides
+Added: guidance on accounting for enactment effects of the 2017 TCJA.
+Added: SAB 118 provides a measurement period of up to one year from the
+Added: 2017 TCJA’s enactment date for companies to complete their accounting under ASC 740.
+Added: In accordance with SAB 118, to the extent
+Added: that a company’s accounting for certain income tax effects of the 2017 TCJA is incomplete but it is able to determine a reasonable
+Added: estimate, it must record a provisional estimate in its financial statements.
+Added: If a company cannot determine a provisional estimate
+Added: to be included in its financial statements, it should continue to apply ASC 740 on the basis of the provisions of the tax laws
+Added: that were in effect immediately before the enactment of the 2017 TCJA.
+Added: In connection with the Company’s
+Added: initial analysis of the impact of the enactment of the 2017 TCJA, the Company recorded a net tax expense of approximately $80,000
+Added: in the fourth quarter of 2017.
+Added: For various reasons that are discussed more fully below, including the issuance of additional technical
+Added: and interpretive guidance, the Company has not completed its accounting for the income tax effects of certain elements of the 2017
+Added: However, with respect to the following, the Company was able to make reasonable estimates of the 2017 TCJA’s effects
+Added: and, as such, recorded provisional amounts:
+Added: Transition tax:
+Added: The transition tax is a
+Added: tax on previously untaxed accumulated and current earnings and profits (E&P) of certain of the Company’s non-U.S.
subsidiaries.
−Removed: To determine the amount of the transition tax, the Company must determine, in addition
−Removed: to other factors, the amount of post-1986 E&P of the relevant subsidiaries, as well as the amount of non-U.S.
−Removed: paid on such earnings.
−Removed: Further, the transition tax is based in part on the amount of those earnings held in cash and other specified
−Removed: The Company was able to make a reasonable estimate of the transition tax and recorded a provisional obligation and additional
−Removed: income tax expense of approximately $80,000 in the fourth quarter of 2017.
−Removed: However, the Company is continuing to gather additional
−Removed: information and will consider additional technical guidance to more precisely compute and account for the amount of the transition
−Removed: This amount may change when the Company finalizes the calculation of post-1986 foreign E&P previously deferred from U.S.
−Removed: federal taxation and finalizes the amounts held in cash or other specified assets.
−Removed: The 2017 TCJA’s transition tax is payable
−Removed: over eight years beginning in 2018.
+Added: To determine the amount of the transition tax, the Company must determine, in addition to other factors, the amount of post-1986
+Added: E&P of the relevant subsidiaries, as well as the amount of non-U.S.
+Added: income taxes paid on such earnings.
+Added: Further, the transition
+Added: tax is based in part on the amount of those earnings held in cash and other specified assets.
+Added: The Company was able to make a reasonable
+Added: estimate of the transition tax and recorded a provisional obligation and additional income tax expense of approximately $80,000
+Added: in the fourth quarter of 2017.
+Added: However, the Company is continuing to gather additional information and will consider additional
+Added: technical guidance to more precisely compute and account for the amount of the transition tax.
+Added: This amount may change when the
+Added: Company finalizes the calculation of post-1986 foreign E&P previously deferred from U.S.
+Added: federal taxation and finalizes the
+Added: amounts held in cash or other specified assets.
+Added: The 2017 TCJA’s transition tax is payable over eight years beginning in 2018.
Hence, the Company only provided $6,528 for the year ended 31 December 2017.
−Removed: Paper and Baoding Shengde are PRC operating companies and are subject to PRC Enterprise Income Tax.
−Removed: Pursuant to the PRC New Enterprise
−Removed: Income Tax Law, Enterprise Income Tax is generally imposed at a statutory rate of 25%.
−Removed: provisions for income taxes for three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were as follows:
+Added: Dongfang Paper and Baoding Shengde are
+Added: PRC operating companies and are subject to PRC Enterprise Income Tax.
+Added: Pursuant to the PRC New Enterprise Income Tax Law, Enterprise
+Added: Income Tax is generally imposed at a statutory rate of 25%.
+Added: The provisions for income taxes for three months ended March
+Added: 31, 2020 and 2019 were as follows:
Three Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
Provision for Income Taxes
−Removed: Current Tax Provision PRC
−Removed: Deferred Tax Provision PRC
−Removed: Total Provision for (Deferred tax benefit)/ Income Taxes
−Removed: provisions for income taxes for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were as follows:
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: Provision for Income Taxes
Current Tax Provision U.S.
2 unchanged sentences
Total Provision for (Deferred tax benefit)/ Income Taxes
−Removed: $ (1,626,222 )
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: addition to the reversible future PRC income tax benefits stemming from the timing differences of items such as recognition of
−Removed: asset disposal gain or loss and asset depreciation, the Company was incorporated in the United States and incurred aggregate net
−Removed: operating losses of approximately $nil and $6,710,939 for U.S.
−Removed: income tax purposes for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2016,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: The net operating loss carried forward may be available to reduce future years’
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
+Added: In addition to the reversible future PRC
+Added: income tax benefits stemming from the timing differences of items such as recognition of asset disposal gain or loss and asset
+Added: depreciation, the Company was incorporated in the United States and incurred aggregate net operating losses of approximately $nil
+Added: and $6,710,939 for U.S.
+Added: income tax purposes for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively.
+Added: The net operating loss
+Added: carried forward may be available to reduce future years’
taxable income.
−Removed: forwards would expire, if not utilized, during the period of 2030 through 2035.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2016, management believed that
−Removed: the realization of all the U.S.
−Removed: income tax benefits from these losses, which generally would generate a deferred tax asset if
−Removed: it can be expected to be utilized in the future, appears not more than likely due to the Company’s limited operating history
−Removed: and continuing losses for United States income tax purposes.
−Removed: Accordingly, As of December 31, 2016, the Company provided a 100%
−Removed: valuation allowance on the U.S.
−Removed: deferred tax asset benefit to reduce the total deferred tax asset to the amount realizable for
−Removed: the PRC income tax purposes.
−Removed: Management reviews this valuation allowance periodically and will make adjustments as warranted.
−Removed: A summary of the otherwise deductible (or taxable) deferred tax items is as follows:
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: December 31, 2018
+Added: These carry forwards would expire, if not utilized,
+Added: during the period of 2030 through 2035.
+Added: As of December 31, 2019, management believed that the realization of all the U.S.
+Added: tax benefits from these losses, which generally would generate a deferred tax asset if it can be expected to be utilized in the
+Added: future, appears not more than likely due to the Company’s limited operating history and continuing losses for United States
+Added: income tax purposes.
+Added: Accordingly, As of December 31, 2019, the Company provided a 100% valuation allowance on the U.S.
+Added: tax asset benefit to reduce the total deferred tax asset to the amount realizable for the PRC income tax purposes.
+Added: Management reviews
+Added: this valuation allowance periodically and will make adjustments as warranted.
+Added: A summary of the otherwise deductible (or taxable)
+Added: deferred tax items is as follows:
Deferred tax assets (liabilities)
6 unchanged sentences
Total deferred tax assets, net
−Removed: following table reconciles the statutory rates to the Company’s effective tax rate for:
+Added: The following table reconciles the statutory rates to the Company’s
+Added: effective tax rate for:
Three Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
PRC Statutory rate
3 unchanged sentences
Effective income tax rate
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30,
−Removed: PRC Statutory rate
−Removed: Effect of different tax jurisdiction
−Removed: Effect of reconciling items in the PRC for tax purposes
−Removed: Change in valuation allowance
−Removed: Effective income tax rate
−Removed: the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, the effective income tax rate was estimated by the Company to be 24.8% and
−Removed: 27.7%, respectively.
−Removed: During the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, the effective income tax rate was estimated by
−Removed: the Company to be 75.9% and 23.2%, respectively.
−Removed: of December 31, 2017, except for the one-time transition tax under the 2017 TCJA which imposes a U.S.
−Removed: tax liability on all unrepatriated
−Removed: foreign E&Ps, the Company does not believe that its future dividend policy and the available U.S.
−Removed: tax deductions and net operating
−Removed: losses will cause the Company to recognize any other substantial current U.S.
−Removed: federal or state corporate income tax liability
−Removed: in the near future.
−Removed: Nor does it believes that the amount of the repatriation of the VIE’s earnings and profits for purposes
−Removed: of paying dividends will change the Company’s position that its PRC subsidiary Baoding Shengde and the VIE, Dongfang Paper
−Removed: are considered or are expected to be indefinitely reinvested offshore to support our future capacity expansion.
−Removed: If these earnings
−Removed: are repatriated to the U.S.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31,
+Added: 2020 and 2019, the effective income tax rate was estimated by the Company to be 17.8% and 19.2%, respectively.
+Added: As of December 31, 2017, except for the
+Added: one-time transition tax under the 2017 TCJA which imposes a U.S.
+Added: tax liability on all unrepatriated foreign E&Ps, the Company
+Added: does not believe that its future dividend policy and the available U.S.
+Added: tax deductions and net operating losses will cause the
+Added: Company to recognize any other substantial current U.S.
+Added: federal or state corporate income tax liability in the near future.
+Added: does it believes that the amount of the repatriation of the VIE’s earnings and profits for purposes of paying dividends
+Added: will change the Company’s position that its PRC subsidiary Baoding Shengde and the VIE, Dongfang Paper are considered or
+Added: are expected to be indefinitely reinvested offshore to support our future capacity expansion.
+Added: If these earnings are repatriated
resulting in U.S.
−Removed: taxable income in the future, or if it is determined that such earnings are to be
−Removed: remitted in the foreseeable future, additional tax provisions would be required.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: Company has adopted ASC Topic 740-10-05, Income Taxes.
−Removed: To date, the adoption of this interpretation has not impacted the Company’s
−Removed: financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
−Removed: The Company performed self-assessment and the Company’s liability
−Removed: for income taxes includes the liability for unrecognized tax benefits, interest and penalties which relate to tax years still
−Removed: subject to review by taxing authorities.
−Removed: Audit periods remain open for review until the statute of limitations has passed, which
−Removed: in the PRC is usually 5 years.
−Removed: The completion of review or the expiration of the statute of limitations for a given audit period
−Removed: could result in an adjustment to the Company’s liability for income taxes.
−Removed: Any such adjustment could be material to the
−Removed: Company’s results of operations for any given quarterly or annual period based, in part, upon the results of operations
−Removed: for the given period.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2018 and 2017, management considered that the Company had no uncertain tax positions
−Removed: affecting its consolidated financial position and results of operations or cash flows, and will continue to evaluate for any uncertain
−Removed: position in future.
−Removed: There are no estimated interest costs and penalties provided in the Company’s consolidated financial
−Removed: statements for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively.
−Removed: The Company’s tax positions related to open tax
−Removed: years are subject to examination by the relevant tax authorities and the major one is the China Tax Authority.
+Added: taxable income in the future, or if it is determined that such earnings are to be remitted in the
+Added: foreseeable future, additional tax provisions would be required.
+Added: The Company has adopted ASC Topic 740-10-05,
+Added: Income Taxes.
+Added: To date, the adoption of this interpretation has not impacted the Company’s financial position, results of
+Added: operations, or cash flows.
+Added: The Company performed self-assessment and the Company’s liability for income taxes includes the
+Added: liability for unrecognized tax benefits, interest and penalties which relate to tax years still subject to review by taxing authorities.
+Added: Audit periods remain open for review until the statute of limitations has passed, which in the PRC is usually 5 years.
+Added: The completion
+Added: of review or the expiration of the statute of limitations for a given audit period could result in an adjustment to the Company’s
+Added: liability for income taxes.
+Added: Any such adjustment could be material to the Company’s results of operations for any given quarterly
+Added: or annual period based, in part, upon the results of operations for the given period.
+Added: As of December 31, 2019 and 2018, management
+Added: considered that the Company had no uncertain tax positions affecting its consolidated financial position and results of operations
+Added: or cash flows, and will continue to evaluate for any uncertain position in future.
+Added: There are no estimated interest costs and penalties
+Added: provided in the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
+Added: The Company’s tax positions related to open tax years are subject to examination by the relevant tax authorities and the
+Added: major one is the China Tax Authority.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
(13) Stock Incentive Plans
−Removed: of common stock pursuant to the 2011 Incentive Stock Plan and 2012 Incentive Stock Plan
−Removed: August 28, 2011, the Company’s Annual General Meeting approved the 2011 Incentive Stock Plan of IT Tech Packaging, Inc.
−Removed: (the “2011 ISP”) as previously adopted by the Board of Directors on July 5, 2011.
−Removed: Under the 2011 ISP, the Company
−Removed: may grant an aggregate of 375,000 shares of the Company’s common stock to the Company’s directors, officers, employees
−Removed: or consultants.
−Removed: No stock or option was issued under the 2011 ISP until January 2, 2012, when the Compensation Committee granted
−Removed: 109,584 shares of restricted common stock to certain officers and directors of the Company when the stock was at $3.45 per share,
−Removed: as compensation for their services in the past years.
−Removed: Total fair value of the stock was calculated at $378,065 as of the date
−Removed: September 10, 2012, the Company’s Annual General Meeting approved the 2012 Incentive Stock Plan of IT Tech Packaging, Inc.
−Removed: (the “2012 ISP”) as previously adopted by the Board of Directors on July 4, 2012.
−Removed: Under the 2012 ISP, the Company
−Removed: may grant an aggregate of 200,000 shares of the Company’s common stock to the Company’s directors, officers, employees
−Removed: or consultants.
−Removed: Specifically, the Board and/or the Compensation Committee have authority to (a) grant, in its discretion, Incentive
−Removed: Stock Options or Non-statutory Options, Stock Awards or Restricted Stock Purchase Offers;
−Removed: (b) determine in good faith the fair
−Removed: market value of the stock covered by any grant;
−Removed: (c) determine which eligible persons shall receive grants and the number of shares,
−Removed: restrictions, terms and conditions to be included in such grants;
−Removed: and (d) make all other determinations necessary or advisable
−Removed: for the 2012 ISP’s administration.
−Removed: On December 31, 2013, the Compensation Committee granted restricted common shares of
−Removed: 297,000, out of which 265,416 shares were granted under the 2011 ISP and 31,584 shares under the 2012 ISP, to certain officers,
−Removed: directors and employees of the Company when the stock was at $2.66 per share, as compensation for their services in the past years.
−Removed: Total fair value of the stock was calculated at $790,020 as of the date of grant.
−Removed: Incentive Plan
−Removed: August 29, 2015, the Company’s Annual General Meeting approved the 2015 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan of IT Tech Packaging,
−Removed: (the “2015 ISP”) as previously adopted by the Board of Directors on July 10, 2015.
−Removed: Under the 2015 ISP, the Company
−Removed: may grant an aggregate of 1,500,000 shares of the Company’s common stock to the directors, officers, employees and/or consultants
−Removed: of the Company and its subsidiaries.
−Removed: On January 12, 2016, the Compensation Committee granted un-restricted common shares of 1,133,916,
−Removed: of which 168,416 shares were granted under the 2012 ISP and 965,500 shares under the 2015 ISP, to certain officers, directors,
−Removed: employees and a consultant of the Company as compensation for their services in the past years.
−Removed: Total fair value of the stock
−Removed: was calculated at $1,417,395 as of the date of issuance at $1.25 per share.
−Removed: September 13, 2018, the compensation committee granted an aggregate of 534,500 shares of common stock to fifteen officers, directors
−Removed: and employees of the Company, which were granted under the 2015 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan.
−Removed: Total fair value of the shares
−Removed: of common stock granted was calculated at $470,360 as of the date of issuance at $0.88 per share.
+Added: Issuance of common stock pursuant to the 2011 Incentive Stock
+Added: Plan and 2012 Incentive Stock Plan
+Added: On August 28, 2011, the Company’s
+Added: Annual General Meeting approved the 2011 Incentive Stock Plan of IT Tech Packaging, Inc.
+Added: (the “2011 ISP”) as previously
+Added: adopted by the Board of Directors on July 5, 2011.
+Added: Under the 2011 ISP, the Company may grant an aggregate of 375,000 shares of
+Added: the Company’s common stock to the Company’s directors, officers, employees or consultants.
+Added: No stock or option was issued
+Added: under the 2011 ISP until January 2, 2012, when the Compensation Committee granted 109,584 shares of restricted common stock to
+Added: certain officers and directors of the Company when the stock was at $3.45 per share, as compensation for their services in the
+Added: Total fair value of the stock was calculated at $378,065 as of the date of issuance.
+Added: On September 10, 2012, the Company’s
+Added: Annual General Meeting approved the 2012 Incentive Stock Plan of IT Tech Packaging, Inc.
+Added: (the “2012 ISP”) as previously
+Added: adopted by the Board of Directors on July 4, 2012.
+Added: Under the 2012 ISP, the Company may grant an aggregate of 200,000 shares of
+Added: the Company’s common stock to the Company’s directors, officers, employees or consultants.
+Added: Specifically, the Board
+Added: and/or the Compensation Committee have authority to (a) grant, in its discretion, Incentive Stock Options or Non-statutory Options,
+Added: Stock Awards or Restricted Stock Purchase Offers;
+Added: (b) determine in good faith the fair market value of the stock covered by any
+Added: (c) determine which eligible persons shall receive grants and the number of shares, restrictions, terms and conditions to
+Added: be included in such grants;
+Added: and (d) make all other determinations necessary or advisable for the 2012 ISP’s administration.
+Added: On December 31, 2013, the Compensation Committee granted restricted common shares of 297,000, out of which 265,416 shares were
+Added: granted under the 2011 ISP and 31,584 shares under the 2012 ISP, to certain officers, directors and employees of the Company when
+Added: the stock was at $2.66 per share, as compensation for their services in the past years.
+Added: Total fair value of the stock was calculated
+Added: at $790,020 as of the date of grant.
+Added: 2015 Incentive Stock Plan
+Added: On August 29, 2015, the Company’s
+Added: Annual General Meeting approved the 2015 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan of IT Tech Packaging, Inc.
+Added: (the “2015 ISP”)
+Added: as previously adopted by the Board of Directors on July 10, 2015.
+Added: Under the 2015 ISP, the Company may grant an aggregate of 1,500,000
+Added: shares of the Company’s common stock to the directors, officers, employees and/or consultants of the Company and its subsidiaries.
+Added: On January 12, 2016, the Compensation Committee granted restricted common shares of 1,133,916, of which 168,416 shares were
+Added: granted under the 2012 ISP and 965,500 shares under the 2015 ISP, to certain officers, directors, employees and a consultant of
+Added: the Company as compensation for their services in the past years.
+Added: Total fair value of the stock was calculated at $1,417,395 as
+Added: of the date of issuance at $1.25 per share.
+Added: On September 13, 2018, the compensation committee granted an
+Added: aggregate of 534,500 shares of common stock to fifteen officers, directors and employees of the Company, which were granted under
+Added: the 2015 ISP.
+Added: Total fair value of the shares of common stock granted was calculated at $470,360 as of the date of issuance at $0.88
+Added: 2019 Incentive Stock Plan
+Added: On October 31, 2019, the shareholders of
+Added: the Company at the Company’s Annual Shareholders General Meeting adopted and approved the 2019 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan
+Added: of IT Tech Packaging, Inc.
+Added: (the “2019 ISP”).
+Added: Under the 2019 ISP, the Company has reserved a total of 2,000,000 shares
+Added: of common stock for issuance as or under awards to be made to the directors, officers, employees and/or consultants of the Company
+Added: and its subsidiaries.
(14) Commitments and Contingencies
−Removed: Company leases 32.95 acres of land from a local government in Xushui District, Baoding City, Hebei, China through a real estate
−Removed: lease with a 30-year term, which expires on December 31, 2031.
−Removed: The lease requires an annual rental payment of approximately $17,512
−Removed: (RMB 120,000).
−Removed: This operating lease is renewable at the end of the 30-year term.
−Removed: mentioned in Note (8) Related Party Transactions, in connection with the sale of Industrial Buildings to Hebei Fangsheng, Hebei
−Removed: Fangsheng agrees to lease the Industrial Buildings back to the Company at an annual rental of $145,930 (RMB 1,000,000), for a
−Removed: total term of up to five years.
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: minimum lease payments of all operating leases are as follows:
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: Operating Lease
+Added: The Company leases 32.95 acres of land
+Added: from a local government in Xushui District, Baoding City, Hebei, China through a real estate lease with a 30-year term, which expires
+Added: on December 31, 2031.
+Added: The lease requires an annual rental payment of approximately $17,160 (RMB 120,000).
+Added: This operating lease
+Added: is renewable at the end of the 30-year term.
+Added: As mentioned in Note (8) Related Party
+Added: Transactions, in connection with the sale of Industrial Buildings to Hebei Fangsheng, Hebei Fangsheng agrees to lease the Industrial
+Added: Buildings back to the Company at an annual rental of $142,998 (RMB 1,000,000), for a total term of up to five years.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: Future minimum lease payments of all operating leases are as follows:
Total operating lease payments
−Removed: of September 30, 2019, the Company has signed several contracts for improvement of Industrial Buildings.
−Removed: Total outstanding commitments
−Removed: under these contracts were $1,255,028 and $2,300,187 as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: and Indemnities
−Removed: Company agreed with Baoding Huanrun Trading Co., a major supplier of raw materials, to guarantee certain obligations of this third
−Removed: party, and as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company guaranteed its long-term loan from financial institutions
−Removed: amounting to $4,382,926 (RMB31,000,000) that matured at various times in 2018-2023.
−Removed: If Huanrun Trading Co., were to become insolvent,
−Removed: the Company could be materially adversely affected.
+Added: Capital commitment
+Added: As of March 31, 2020, the Company has signed
+Added: several contracts for improvement of Industrial Buildings.
+Added: Total outstanding commitments under these contracts were $882,019 and
+Added: $1,101,989 as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
+Added: The Company expected to pay off all the balances within 1
+Added: On June 25, 2019, Dongfang Paper entered
+Added: into an acquisition agreement with shareholder of Hebei Tengsheng Paper Co., Ltd.(“Hebei Tengsheng”), a limited liability
+Added: company organized under the laws of the PRC, pursuant to which Dongfang Paper will acquire Hebei Tengsheng.
+Added: The consideration for
+Added: the acquisition is RMB 320 million (approximately $45 million), of which $1.4 million was paid by the Company, and the balance
+Added: consideration of $43.6 million is payable by December 31, 2021.
+Added: Guarantees and Indemnities
+Added: The Company agreed with Baoding Huanrun
+Added: Trading Co., a major supplier of raw materials, to guarantee certain obligations of this third party, and as of March 31, 2020
+Added: and December 31, 2019, the Company guaranteed its long-term loan from financial institutions amounting to $4,375,379 (RMB31,000,000)
+Added: that matured at various times in 2020-2023.
+Added: If Huanrun Trading Co., were to become insolvent, the Company could be materially adversely
(15) Segment Reporting
−Removed: March 10, 2010, Baoding Shengde started its operations and thereafter the Company manages its operations through three business
−Removed: operating segments:
−Removed: Dongfang Paper, which produces offset printing paper and corrugating medium paper, Hebei Tengsheng, which
−Removed: produces tissue paper, and Baoding Shengde, which produces digital photo paper.
−Removed: They are managed separately because each business
−Removed: requires different technology and marketing strategies.
−Removed: Company evaluates performance of its operating segments based on net income.
−Removed: Administrative functions such as finance, treasury,
−Removed: and information systems are centralized.
−Removed: However, where applicable, portions of the administrative function expenses are allocated
−Removed: between the operating segments based on gross revenue generated.
−Removed: The operating segments do share facilities in Xushui District,
−Removed: Baoding City, Hebei Province, China.
+Added: Since March 10, 2010, Baoding Shengde started
+Added: its operations and thereafter the Company manages its operations through two business operating segments:
+Added: Dongfang Paper, which
+Added: produces offset printing paper and corrugating medium paper and Baoding Shengde, which produces digital photo paper.
+Added: They are managed
+Added: separately because each business requires different technology and marketing strategies.
+Added: The Company evaluates performance of its
+Added: operating segments based on net income.
+Added: Administrative functions such as finance, treasury, and information systems are centralized.
+Added: However, where applicable, portions of the administrative function expenses are allocated between the operating segments based
+Added: on gross revenue generated.
+Added: The operating segments do share facilities in Xushui District, Baoding City, Hebei Province, China.
All sales were sold to customers located in the PRC.
−Removed: financial information for the three reportable segments is as follows:
−Removed: Three Months Ended
−Removed: September 30, 2019
−Removed: Not Attributable
−Removed: Elimination of
−Removed: Enterprise-wide,
−Removed: Inter-segment
−Removed: Depreciation and amortization
−Removed: Interest income
−Removed: Interest expense
−Removed: Income tax expense(benefit)
−Removed: Net income (loss)
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: Three Months Ended
−Removed: September 30, 2018
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
+Added: Summarized financial information for the three reportable segments
+Added: is as follows:
+Added: Months Ended March 31, 2020
Not Attributable
3 unchanged sentences
Depreciation and amortization
−Removed: Loss from disposal of property, plant and equipment
Interest income
2 unchanged sentences
Net income (loss)
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019
−Removed: Not Attributable
−Removed: Elimination of
−Removed: Enterprise-wide,
−Removed: Inter-segment
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30, 2019
+Added: Months Ended March 31, 2019
Not Attributable
3 unchanged sentences
Depreciation and amortization
−Removed: Loss from impairment and disposal of property, plant and equipment
Interest income
2 unchanged sentences
Net income (loss)
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30, 2018
+Added: As of March 31, 2020
Not Attributable
−Removed: Elimination of
Enterprise-wide,
−Removed: Inter-segment
−Removed: Depreciation and amortization
−Removed: Loss from disposal of property, plant and equipment
−Removed: Interest income
−Removed: Interest expense
−Removed: Income tax expense(benefit)
−Removed: Net income (loss)
+Added: of Inter-segment
As of December 31, 2019
Not Attributable
−Removed: Elimination of
Enterprise-wide,
Inter-segment
−Removed: $ 183,987,100
−Removed: TECH PACKAGING, INC.
−Removed: TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(16) Concentration and Major Customers and Suppliers
−Removed: the three months ended September 30, 2019, the Company had no single customer contributed over 10% of total sales.
−Removed: the three months ended September 30, 2018, the Company had no single customer contributed over 10% of total sales.
−Removed: the three months ended September 30, 2019, the Company had four major suppliers accounted for 71%, 13%, 4% and 4% of total purchases.
−Removed: For the three months ended September 30, 2018, the Company had three major suppliers accounted for 86%, 7% and 3% of total purchases.
−Removed: the nine months ended September 30, 2019, the Company had three major suppliers accounted for 77%, 10% and 4% of the total purchases.
−Removed: For the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the Company had three major suppliers which accounted for 85%, 4% and 3% of the
−Removed: total purchases.
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2020, the Company had no
+Added: single customer contributed over 10% of total sales.
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Company had no
+Added: single customer contributed over 10% of total sales.
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2020,
+Added: the Company had three major suppliers accounted for 70%, 11% and 9% of total purchases.
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2019,
+Added: the Company had three major suppliers accounted for 80%, 9% and 4% of total purchases.
+Added: IT TECH PACKAGING, INC.
+Added: NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
(17) Concentration of Credit Risk
−Removed: instruments for which the Company is potentially subject to concentration of credit risk consist principally of cash.
−Removed: places its cash in reputable financial institutions in the PRC and the United States.
−Removed: Although it is generally understood that
−Removed: the PRC central government stands behind all of the banks in China in the event of bank failure, there is no deposit insurance
−Removed: system in China that is similar to the protection provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) of
−Removed: the United States as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018.
+Added: Financial instruments for which the Company
+Added: is potentially subject to concentration of credit risk consist principally of cash.
+Added: The Company places its cash in reputable financial
+Added: institutions in the PRC and the United States.
+Added: Although it is generally understood that the PRC central government stands behind
+Added: all of the banks in China in the event of bank failure, there is no deposit insurance system in China that is similar to the protection
+Added: provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) of the United States as of March 31, 2020 and December
On May 1, 2015, the new “Deposit Insurance Regulations”
−Removed: was effective in the PRC that the maximum protection would be up to RMB500,000 (US$70,692) per depositor per insured financial
−Removed: intuition, including both principal and interest.
−Removed: For the cash placed in financial institutions in the United States, the Company’s
−Removed: bank accounts are all fully covered by the FDIC insurance as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively, while
−Removed: for the cash placed in financial institutions in the PRC, the balances exceeding the maximum coverage of RMB500,000 amounted to
−Removed: RMB31,787,448 (US$4,494,260) as of September 30, 2019.
+Added: was effective in the PRC that the maximum protection
+Added: would be up to RMB500,000 (US$70,571) per depositor per insured financial intuition, including both principal and interest.
+Added: the cash placed in financial institutions in the United States, the Company’s U.S.
+Added: bank accounts are all fully covered by
+Added: the FDIC insurance as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, while for the cash placed in financial institutions
+Added: in the PRC, the balances exceeding the maximum coverage of RMB500,000 amounted to RMB80,720,243 (US$11,392,957) as of March 31,
(18) Risks and Uncertainties
−Removed: Company is subject to substantial risks from, among other things, intense competition associated with the industry in general,
−Removed: other risks associated with financing, liquidity requirements, rapidly changing customer requirements, foreign currency exchange
−Removed: rates, and operating in the PRC under its various laws and restrictions.
+Added: The Company is subject to substantial risks
+Added: from, among other things, intense competition associated with the industry in general, other risks associated with financing, liquidity
+Added: requirements, rapidly changing customer requirements, foreign currency exchange rates, and operating in the PRC under its various
+Added: laws and restrictions.
+Added: Our business, financial condition and
+Added: results of operations may be materially adversely affected by global health epidemics, including the recent COVID-19 outbreak.
+Added: of epidemic, pandemic, or contagious diseases such as COVID-19, could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition,
+Added: and results of operations.
+Added: The spread of COVID-19 has resulted in the World Health Organization declaring the outbreak of COVID-19
+Added: as a global pandemic.
+Added: While the COVID-19 outbreak is still in relatively early stages, international stock markets have begun
+Added: to reflect the uncertainty associated with the slow-down in the global economy and the reduced levels of international travel
+Added: experienced since the beginning of January, large declines in oil prices and the significant decline in the Dow Industrial Average
+Added: at the end of February and beginning of March 2020 was largely attributed to the effects of COVID-19.
+Added: Any resulting financial
+Added: impact cannot be reasonably estimated at this time.
+Added: The extent to which the COVID-19 impacts our results will depend on future
+Added: developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity
+Added: of the coronavirus and the actions taken globally to contain the coronavirus or treat its impact, among others.
+Added: Existing insurance
+Added: coverage may not provide protection for all costs that may arise from all such possible events.
+Added: During the quarter ended March
+Added: 31, 2020, our revenue was affected by the temporary suspension in production as a result of the pandemic outbreak.
+Added: assessing our business operations and the total impact COVID-19 may have on our results and financial condition, but there can
+Added: be no assurance that this analysis will enable us to avoid part or all of any impact from the spread of COVID-19 or its consequences,
+Added: including downturns in business sentiment generally.
(19) Recent Accounting Pronouncements
−Removed: June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2016-13, “Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326):
−Removed: Measurement of Credit Losses
−Removed: on Financial Instruments”
−Removed: (“ASU 2016-13”).
−Removed: Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326) amends guidelines
−Removed: on reporting credit losses for assets held at amortized cost basis and available-for-sale debt securities.
−Removed: For assets held at
−Removed: amortized cost basis, Topic 326 eliminates the probable initial recognition threshold in current GAAP and, instead, requires an
−Removed: entity to reflect its current estimate of all expected credit losses.
−Removed: The allowance for credit losses is a valuation account that
−Removed: is deducted from the amortized cost basis of the financial assets to present the net amount expected to be collected.
−Removed: For available-for-sale
−Removed: debt securities, credit losses should be measured in a manner similar to current GAAP, however Topic 326 will require that credit
−Removed: losses be presented as an allowance rather than as a write-down.
−Removed: ASU 2016-13 affects entities holding financial assets and net
−Removed: investment in leases that are not accounted for at fair value through net income.
−Removed: The amendments affect loans, debt securities,
−Removed: trade receivables, net investments in leases, off balance sheet credit exposures, reinsurance receivables, and any other financial
−Removed: assets not excluded from the scope that have the contractual right to receive cash.
−Removed: The amendments in this ASU will be effective
−Removed: for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim periods within those fiscal years.
−Removed: We are currently evaluating
−Removed: the impact of the adoption of ASU 2016-13 on our consolidated financial statements.
+Added: In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13,
+Added: Disclosure Framework-Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement.
+Added: The amendments in this standard will remove,
+Added: modify and add certain disclosures under ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurement, with the objective of improving disclosure effectiveness.
+Added: ASU 2018-13 will be effective for the Company’s fiscal year beginning April 1, 2020, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: The transition
+Added: requirements are dependent upon each amendment within this update and will be applied either prospectively or retrospectively.
+Added: The Company does not expect ASU 2018-13 to have a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
+Added: In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12,
+Added: Income Taxes (Topic 740) Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes.
+Added: The amendments in this Update related to separate financial
+Added: statements of legal entities that are not subject to tax should be applied on a retrospective basis for all periods presented.
+Added: The amendments related to changes in ownership of foreign equity method investments or foreign subsidiaries should be applied on
+Added: a modified retrospective basis through a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of the beginning of the fiscal year
+Added: The amendments related to franchise taxes that are partially based on income should be applied on either a retrospective
+Added: basis for all periods presented or a modified retrospective basis through a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as
+Added: of the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption.
+Added: All other amendments should be applied on a prospective basis.
+Added: We do not expect
+Added: the adoption of ASU 2019-12 to have a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements.
(20) Subsequent Event
−Removed: October 31, 2019, the shareholders of the Company at the Company’s Annual Shareholders General Meeting adopted and approved
−Removed: the 2019 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan of IT Tech Packaging, Inc.
−Removed: (the “2019 ISP”).
−Removed: Under the 2019 ISP, the Company
−Removed: has reserved a total of 2,000,000 shares of common stock for issuance as or under awards to be made to the directors, officers,
−Removed: employees and/or consultants of the Company and its subsidiaries.
−Removed: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
−Removed: Cautionary Notice Regarding Forward-Looking
−Removed: The following discussion
−Removed: of the financial condition and results of operations of the Company for the periods ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 should be
−Removed: read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes to the financial statements that are included elsewhere in this
−Removed: quarterly report.
−Removed: In this quarterly
−Removed: report, references to “the Company,”
+Added: On April 2, 2020, the compensation committee
+Added: granted an aggregate of 2,000,000 shares of restricted common stock to fifteen officers, directors and employees of the Company,
+Added: which were granted under the 2019 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan.
+Added: Total fair value of the shares of common stock granted was calculated
+Added: at $1,200,000 as of the date of issuance at $0.60 per share.
+Added: On April 29, 2020, the Company and certain
+Added: institutional investors entered into a securities purchase agreement, as amended on May 4, 2020, pursuant to which the Company
+Added: agreed to sell to such investors an aggregate of 4,400,000 shares of common stock in a registered direct offering and warrants
+Added: to purchase up to 4,400,000 shares of the Company’s common stock in a concurrent private placement, for gross proceeds of
+Added: approximately $2.55 million (net proceeds of approximately 2.27 million).
+Added: Management’s Discussion
+Added: and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
+Added: Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
+Added: following discussion of the financial condition and results of operations of the Company for the periods ended March 31, 2020
+Added: and 2019 should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes to the financial statements that are included
+Added: elsewhere in this quarterly report.
+Added: this quarterly report, references to “the Company,”
“we,”
1 unchanged sentence
and “us”
−Removed: refer to IT Tech Packaging,
+Added: to IT Tech Packaging, Inc.
and its PRC subsidiary and variable interest entity unless the context requires otherwise.
−Removed: We make certain forward-looking
−Removed: statements in this report.
−Removed: Statements concerning our future operations, prospects, strategies, financial condition, future economic
−Removed: performance (including growth and earnings), demand for our services, and other statements of our plans, beliefs, or expectations,
−Removed: including the statements contained under the captions “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
−Removed: and Results of Operations”
+Added: make certain forward-looking statements in this report.
+Added: Statements concerning our future operations, prospects, strategies, financial
+Added: condition, future economic performance (including growth and earnings), demand for our services, and other statements of our plans,
+Added: beliefs, or expectations, including the statements contained under the captions “Management’s Discussion and Analysis
+Added: of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
as well as captions elsewhere in this document, are forward-looking statements.
−Removed: In some cases
−Removed: these statements are identifiable through the use of words such as “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”,
−Removed: “expect”, “intend”, “plan”, “project”, “target”, “can”,
−Removed: “could”, “may”, “should”, “will”, “would”, and similar expressions.
−Removed: We intend such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions contained in Section 27A of the Securities
−Removed: Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
−Removed: (the “Exchange Act”).
−Removed: The forward-looking statements we make are not guarantees of future performance and are subject
−Removed: to various assumptions, risks, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by these
−Removed: forward-looking statements.
−Removed: Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially
−Removed: from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.
−Removed: Indeed, it is likely that some of our assumptions may prove
−Removed: to be incorrect.
−Removed: Our actual results and financial position may vary from those projected or implied in the forward-looking statements
−Removed: and the variances may be material.
−Removed: You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.
−Removed: and uncertainties, together with the other risks described from time to time in reports and documents that we file with the Securities
−Removed: and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) should be considered in evaluating forward-looking statements.
−Removed: In evaluating the
−Removed: forward-looking statements contained in this report, you should consider various factors, including, without limitation, the following:
−Removed: (a) those risks and uncertainties related to general economic conditions, (b) whether we are able to manage our planned growth
−Removed: efficiently and operate profitably, (c) whether we are able to generate sufficient revenues or obtain financing to sustain and
−Removed: grow our operations, and (d) whether we are able to successfully fulfill our primary requirements for cash.
−Removed: We assume no obligation
−Removed: to update forward-looking statements, except as otherwise required under federal securities laws.
−Removed: Effective on August
−Removed: 1, 2018, we changed our corporate name to IT Tech Packaging, Inc..
−Removed: In connection with the name change, our common stock began being
−Removed: traded under a new NYSE symbol, “ITP,”
−Removed: and a new CUSIP number, 46527C100, at such time.
−Removed: Results of Operations
−Removed: Comparison of the Three Months Ended
−Removed: September 30, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: Revenue for the three
−Removed: months ended September 30, 2019 was $32,937,917, an increase of $6,214,260, or 23.25%, from $26,723,657 for the same period in
−Removed: the previous year.
−Removed: This was mainly due to the increase in sales volume of CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products,
−Removed: partially offset by the decrease in average selling price (ASP) of CMP and offset printing paper.
−Removed: Revenue of Offset Printing Paper, Corrugating
−Removed: Medium Paper and Tissue Paper Products
−Removed: Revenue from sales
−Removed: of offset printing paper, corrugating medium paper (“CMP”) and tissue paper products for the three months ended September
−Removed: 30, 2019 was $32,937,917, an increase of $6,214,055, or 23.25%, from $26,723,862 for the third quarter of 2018.
−Removed: Total offset printing
−Removed: paper, CMP and tissue paper products sold during the three months ended September 30, 2019 amounted to 72,246 tonnes, an increase
−Removed: of 25,097 tonnes, or 53.23%, compared to 47,149 tonnes sold in the comparable period in the previous year.
−Removed: The increase of revenue
−Removed: of CMP and offset printing paper was due to the increase in sales volume of regular CMP and offset printing paper, partially offset
−Removed: by the decrease in average selling price (ASP) of CMP and offset printing paper.
−Removed: With the launch of PM8 in December 2018, the production
−Removed: and sales of tissue paper products have increased steadily in 2019.
+Added: In some cases these statements are identifiable through the use of words such as “anticipate”, “believe”,
+Added: “estimate”, “expect”, “intend”, “plan”, “project”, “target”,
+Added: “can”, “could”, “may”, “should”, “will”, “would”, and
+Added: similar expressions.
+Added: We intend such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions contained in Section
+Added: 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange
+Added: Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).
+Added: The forward-looking statements we make are not guarantees of future
+Added: performance and are subject to various assumptions, risks, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially
+Added: from those suggested by these forward-looking statements.
+Added: Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual
+Added: results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.
+Added: Indeed, it is likely that some
+Added: of our assumptions may prove to be incorrect.
+Added: Our actual results and financial position may vary from those projected or implied
+Added: in the forward-looking statements and the variances may be material.
+Added: You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking
+Added: These risks and uncertainties, together with the other risks described from time to time in reports and documents
+Added: that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) should be considered in evaluating forward-looking
+Added: In evaluating the forward-looking statements contained in this report, you should consider various factors, including,
+Added: without limitation, the following:
+Added: (a) those risks and uncertainties related to general economic conditions, (b) whether we are
+Added: able to manage our planned growth efficiently and operate profitably, (c) whether we are able to generate sufficient revenues
+Added: or obtain financing to sustain and grow our operations, and (d) whether we are able to successfully fulfill our primary requirements
+Added: We assume no obligation to update forward-looking statements, except as otherwise required under federal securities
+Added: of Operations
+Added: of the Three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019
+Added: for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was $8,743,851, a decrease of $8,706,441, or 49.89%, from $17,450,292 for the same period
+Added: in the previous year.
+Added: This was mainly due to the decrease in sales volume and Average Selling Prices (ASPs) of CMP and tissue
+Added: paper products.
+Added: of Offset Printing Paper, Corrugating Medium Paper and Tissue Paper Products
+Added: from sales of offset printing paper, corrugating medium paper (“CMP”) and tissue paper products for the three months
+Added: ended March 31, 2020 was $8,743,851, a decrease of $8,706,441, or 49.89%, from $17,450,292 for the first quarter of 2019.
+Added: offset printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products sold during the three months ended March 31, 2020 amounted to 19,862 tonnes,
+Added: a decrease of 15,459 tonnes, or 43.77%, compared to 35,321 tonnes sold in the comparable period in the previous year.
+Added: was mainly due to production suspension from mid-January 2020 to early March 2020 due to Chinese New Year and the COVID-19 pandemic
+Added: We resumed full capacity of CMP production in May 2020.
The changes in revenue dollar amount and in quantity sold for
−Removed: the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 are summarized as follows:
−Removed: Three Months Ended
−Removed: Three Months Ended
−Removed: September 30, 2019
−Removed: September 30, 2018
−Removed: Quantity (Tonne)
−Removed: Quantity (Tonne)
−Removed: Quantity (Tonne)
−Removed: Light-Weight CMP
+Added: the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 are summarized as follows:
$ (6,502,940 )
$ (1,349,569 )
−Removed: Offset Printing Paper
−Removed: Tissue Paper Products
−Removed: Total CMP, Offset Printing Paper and Tissue Paper Revenue
−Removed: Monthly sales revenue
−Removed: (excluding revenue from digital photo paper and tissue paper products) for the 24 months ended September 30, 2019, are summarized
−Removed: The Average Selling
−Removed: Prices (ASPs) for our main products in the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 are summarized as follows:
+Added: $ (7,852,509 )
+Added: Printing Paper
+Added: Paper Products
+Added: CMP, Offset Printing Paper and Tissue Paper Revenue
+Added: $ (8,706,441 )
+Added: sales revenue (excluding revenue from digital photo paper and tissue paper products) for the 24 months ended March 31, 2020, are
+Added: summarized below:
+Added: Average Selling Prices (ASPs) for our main products in the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 are summarized as follows:
Offset Printing Paper ASP
2 unchanged sentences
Tissue Paper Products ASP
−Removed: Three Months ended September 30, 2018
−Removed: Three Months ended September 30, 2019
−Removed: Increase (Decrease) from comparable period in the previous year
+Added: Three Months ended March 31, 2019
+Added: Three Months ended March 31, 2020
+Added: Decrease from comparable period in the previous year
Decrease by percentage
−Removed: The following chart
−Removed: shows the month-by-month ASPs (excluding the ASPs of the digital photo paper and tissue paper products) for the 24-month period
−Removed: ended September 30, 2019:
−Removed: Corrugating Medium Paper
−Removed: Revenue from CMP amounted
−Removed: to $24,349,052 (73.92% of the total offset printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products revenues) for the three months ended September
−Removed: 30, 2019, representing a decrease of $1,719,228, or 6.60%, from $26,068,280 for the comparable period in 2018.
−Removed: The decrease was
−Removed: mainly due to the decrease in ASP of CMP.
−Removed: We sold 60,208 tonnes
−Removed: of CMP in the three months ended September 30, 2019 as compared to 46,247 tonnes for the same period in 2018, representing a 30.19%
−Removed: increase in quantity sold.
−Removed: ASP for regular CMP
−Removed: dropped from $566/tonne for the three months ended September 30, 2018 to $407/tonne for the three months ended September 30, 2019,
−Removed: representing a 28.09% decrease.
−Removed: ASP in RMB for regular CMP for the third quarter of 2018 and 2019 was RMB3,811 and RMB2,846, respectively,
−Removed: representing a 25.32% decrease.
−Removed: The quantity of regular CMP sold increased by 13,559 tonnes, from 33,928 tonnes in the third quarter
−Removed: of 2018 to 47,487 tonnes in the third quarter of 2019.
−Removed: ASP for light-weight
−Removed: CMP decreased from $556/tonne for the three months ended September 30, 2018 to $394/tonne for the three months ended September
+Added: following chart shows the month-by-month ASPs (excluding the ASPs of the digital photo paper and tissue paper products) for the
+Added: 24-month period ended March 31, 2020:
+Added: from CMP amounted to $7,737,502 (88.49% of the total offset printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products revenues) for the three
+Added: months ended March 31, 2020, representing a decrease of $7,852,509, or 50.37%, from $15,590,011 for the comparable period in 2019.
+Added: sold 18,677 tonnes of CMP in the three months ended March 31, 2020 as compared to 33,718 tonnes for the same period in 2019, representing
+Added: a 44.61% decrease in quantity sold.
+Added: for regular CMP dropped from $465/tonne for the three months ended March 31, 2019 to $415/tonne for the three months ended March
31, 2020, representing a 10.75% decrease.
−Removed: ASP in RMB for light-weight CMP for the third quarter of 2018 and 2019 was RMB3,712 and
−Removed: RMB2,758, respectively, representing a 25.70% decrease.
−Removed: The quantity of light-weight CMP sold increased by 402 tonnes, from 12,319
−Removed: tonnes in the third quarter of 2018, to 12,721 tonnes in the third quarter of 2019.
−Removed: We do not expect that
−Removed: there will be big swings in the market demand and ASPs for CMP and other packaging paper in the remaining months of 2019.
−Removed: Our PM6 production
−Removed: line, which produces regular CMP, has a designated capacity of 360,000 tonnes /year.
−Removed: The utilization rates for the third quarter
−Removed: of 2019 and 2018 were 53.19% and 38.79%, respectively, representing an increase of 14.40%.
−Removed: Quantities sold for
−Removed: regular CMP that was produced by the PM6 production line from October 2017 to September 2019 are as follows:
−Removed: Tissue Paper Products
+Added: ASP in RMB for regular CMP for the first quarter of 2019 and 2020 was RMB3,119 and RMB2,902,
+Added: respectively, representing a 6.96% decrease.
+Added: The quantity of regular CMP sold decreased by 12,505 tonnes, from 26,293 tonnes in
+Added: the first quarter of 2019 to 13,788 tonnes in the first quarter of 2020.
+Added: for light-weight CMP decreased from $453/tonne for the three months ended March 31, 2019 to $412/tonne for the three months ended
+Added: March 31, 2020, representing a 9.05% decrease.
+Added: ASP in RMB for light-weight CMP for the first quarter of 2019 and 2020 was RMB3,041
+Added: and RMB2,883, respectively, representing a 5.20% decrease.
+Added: The quantity of light-weight CMP sold decreased by 2,536 tonnes, from
+Added: 7,425 tonnes in the first quarter of 2019, to 4,889 tonnes in the first quarter of 2020.
+Added: PM6 production line, which produces regular CMP, has a designated capacity of 360,000 tonnes /year.
+Added: The utilization rates for
+Added: the first quarter of 2020 and 2019 were 14.86% and 28.79%, respectively, representing a decrease of 13.93%.
+Added: sold for regular CMP that was produced by the PM6 production line from April 2018 to March 2020 are as follows:
+Added: Paper Products
We produce tissue
paper products, including toilet paper, boxed and soft-packed tissues, handkerchief tissues and paper napkins, as well as bathroom
−Removed: and kitchen paper towels that are marketed and sold under the Dongfang Paper brand.
−Removed: In December 2018, we completed the construction,
−Removed: installation and test of operation of our PM8 production line.
−Removed: We launched the complete line of processing base tissue paper with
−Removed: designated capacity of 15,000 tonnes/year, and producing finished tissue paper products with designated capacity of 10,000 tonnes/year.
−Removed: Revenue from tissue
−Removed: paper products was $1,551,283 (4.71% of the total offset printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products revenues) for the three
−Removed: months ended September 30, 2019, representing an increase of $1,551,283, from $nil for the three months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: We sold 1,840 tonnes of tissue paper in the third quarter of 2019.
−Removed: Offset Printing Paper
−Removed: Revenue from offset
−Removed: printing paper was $7,037,582 (21.37% of the total offset printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products revenues) for the three
−Removed: months ended September 30, 2019, representing an increase of $6,382,000, or 973.49%, from $655,582 for the three months ended September
−Removed: We sold 10,198 tonnes of offset printing paper in the third quarter of 2019, as compared to 902 tonnes in the comparable
−Removed: period of 2018, an increase of 9,296 tonnes, or 1030.60%.
−Removed: ASPs for offset printing
−Removed: paper for the third quarter of 2018 and 2019 were $727 and $690, respectively, representing a 5.09% decrease.
−Removed: ASP in RMB for offset
−Removed: printing paper for the third quarter of 2018 and 2019 was RMB5,517 and RMB4,779, respectively, representing a 13.38% decrease.
−Removed: We do not expect that there will be big swings in the market demand and ASPs for offset printing paper in the remaining months
−Removed: Cost of Sales
−Removed: Total cost of sales
−Removed: for CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products for the quarter ended September 30, 2019 was $27,563,185, an increase
−Removed: of $2,098,465, or 8.24%, from $25,464,720 for the comparable period in 2018.
−Removed: This was mainly due to the increase in sales quantity
−Removed: of CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products, partially offset by the decrease in material costs.
−Removed: Cost of sales for
−Removed: CMP was $20,711,656 for the quarter ended September 30, 2019, as compared to $24,787,540 for the comparable period in 2018.
−Removed: cost of sales per tonne for CMP decreased by 35.82%, from $536 in the third quarter of 2018 to $344 in the third quarter of 2019.
−Removed: The decrease in average cost of sales was mainly attributable to the lower average unit purchase costs (net of applicable value
−Removed: added tax) of recycled paper board in third quarter of 2019 compared to the third quarter of 2018.
−Removed: Cost of sales for
−Removed: offset printing paper was $4,696,459 for the quarter ended September 30, 2019, as compared to $677,180 for the comparable period
−Removed: Average cost of sales per tonne of offset printing paper decreased by 38.62%, from $751 in the three months ended September
−Removed: 30, 2018, to $461 during the comparable period in 2019.
−Removed: The decrease in average cost of sales of offset printing paper was mainly
−Removed: due to the decrease in cost of recycled white scrap paper.
−Removed: Changes in cost of
−Removed: sales and cost per tonne by product for the quarters ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 are summarized below:
+Added: and kitchen paper towels that are marketed and sold under the brand “Qingmu”.
+Added: In December 2018 and November 2019, we
+Added: completed the construction, installation and test of operation of our PM8 and PM9 production lines.
+Added: We launched the complete line
+Added: of processing base tissue paper with designated capacity of 15,000 tonnes/year, and producing finished tissue paper products with
+Added: designated capacity of 15,000 tonnes/year.
+Added: from tissue paper products was $1,006,349 (11.51% of the total offset printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products revenues)
+Added: for the three months ended March 31, 2020, representing a decrease of $853,932, or 45.90%, from $1,860,281 for the three months
+Added: ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: We sold 1,185 tonnes of tissue paper in the first quarter of 2020, as compared to 1,603 tonnes in the comparable
+Added: period of 2019, representing a decrease of 418 tonnes, or 26.08%.
+Added: Tissue paper production was suspended and resumed on February
+Added: As a result, the production and sales quantity of tissue paper products decreased in the three months ended March 31,
+Added: 2020 as compared to the same period of 2019.
+Added: for tissue paper products decreased from $1,160/tonne for the three months ended March 31, 2019 to $849/tonne for the three months
+Added: ended March 31, 2020, representing a 26.81% decrease.
+Added: ASP in RMB for tissue paper products for the first quarter of 2019 and 2020
+Added: was RMB7,786 and RMB5,941, respectively, representing a 23.70% decrease.
+Added: The quantity of tissue paper products sold decreased
+Added: by 418 tonnes, from 1,603 tonnes in the first quarter of 2019, to 1,185 tonnes in the first quarter of 2020.
+Added: cost of sales for CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 was $8,913,570, a
+Added: decrease of $8,729,188, or 49.48%, from $17,642,758 for the comparable period in 2019.
+Added: This was mainly due to the decrease in
+Added: sales quantity of CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products and decrease in material costs.
+Added: of sales for CMP was $7,195,348 for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, as compared to $15,816,086 for the comparable period in
+Added: The decrease in the cost of sales of $8,620,739 for CMP was mainly due to the decrease in sales volume of CMP and decrease
+Added: in average cost of sales.
+Added: Average cost of sales per tonne for CMP decreased by 17.91%, from $469 in the first quarter of 2019
+Added: to $385 in the first quarter of 2020.
+Added: The decrease in average cost of sales was mainly attributable to the lower average unit
+Added: purchase costs (net of applicable value added tax) of recycled paper board in first quarter of 2020 compared to the first quarter
+Added: Cost of sales for tissue paper products was $1,718,222 for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, as compared to $1,826,672
+Added: for the comparable period in 2019.
+Added: The decrease in the cost of sales of $108,450 for tissue paper products was mainly due to the
+Added: decrease in sales volume of tissue paper products, partially offset by the increase in average cost of sales.
+Added: Average cost of
+Added: sales per tonne of tissue paper products increased by 27.19%, from $1,140 in the three months ended March 31, 2019, to $1,450
+Added: for the comparable period in 2020.
+Added: This is mainly due to higher average fixed costs per tonne (labor, depreciation and etc.) absorbed
+Added: owning to low production quantity of PM8 and PM9 in the first quarter of 2020.
+Added: in cost of sales and cost per tonne by product for the quarters ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 are summarized below:
Three Months Ended
Three Months Ended
−Removed: September 30, 2019
−Removed: September 30, 2018
+Added: March 31, 2020
+Added: March 31, 2019
Change in percentage
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Total CMP, Offset Printing Paper and Tissue Paper
−Removed: Our average unit purchase
−Removed: costs (net of applicable value added tax) of recycled paper board and recycled white scrap paper in the three months ended September
−Removed: 30, 2019 were RMB 1,372/tonne (approximately $200/tonne) and RMB 1,770/tonne (approximately $258/tonne), as compared to RMB 2,353/tonne
−Removed: (approximately $360/tonne) and RMB 3,017/tonne (approximately $461/tonne) for the three months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: changes (in US dollars) represent a year-over-year decrease of 44.44% for the recycled paper board.
−Removed: We use domestic recycled paper
−Removed: (sourced mainly from the Beijing-Tianjin metropolitan area) exclusively.
−Removed: Although we do not rely on imported recycled paper, the
−Removed: pricing of which tends to be more volatile than domestic recycled paper, our experience suggests that the pricing of domestic recycled
−Removed: paper bears some correlation to the pricing of imported recycled paper.
−Removed: The pricing trends
−Removed: of our major raw materials for the 24-month period from October 2017 to September 2019 are shown below:
−Removed: Electricity and gas
−Removed: are our two main energy sources.
−Removed: Electricity and gas accounted for approximately 5% and 10.4% of total sales in third quarter of
−Removed: 2019, respectively, compared to 6% and 9% of total sales in third quarter of 2018.
−Removed: The monthly energy cost as a percentage of total
−Removed: monthly sales of our main paper products for the 24 months ended September 30, 2019 are summarized as follows:
−Removed: Gross profit for the
−Removed: three months ended September 30, 2019 was $5,374,732 (16.32% of the total revenue), representing an increase of $4,115,389, or
−Removed: 326.79%, from the gross profit of $1,259,343 (4.71% of the total revenue) for the three months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Offset Printing Paper, CMP and Tissue
−Removed: Paper Products
−Removed: Gross profit for offset
−Removed: printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products for the three months ended September 30, 2019 was $5,374,731, an increase of $4,115,589,
−Removed: or 326.86%, from the gross profit of $1,259,142 for the three months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: The increase was mainly the result
−Removed: of the factors discussed above.
−Removed: The overall gross
−Removed: profit margin for offset printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products increased by 11.61 percentage points, from 4.71% for the
−Removed: three months ended September 30, 2018, to 16.32% for the three months ended September 30, 2019.
−Removed: Gross profit margin
−Removed: for regular CMP for the three months ended September 30, 2019 was 14.68%, or 9.83 percentage points higher, as compared to gross
−Removed: profit margin of 4.85% for the three months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Gross profit margin
−Removed: for light-weight CMP for the three months ended September 30, 2019 was 15.93%, or 10.85 percentage points higher, as compared to
−Removed: gross profit margin of 5.08% for the three months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Gross profit margin
−Removed: for offset printing paper was 33.27% for the three months ended September 30, 2019, an increase of 36.56 percentage points, as
−Removed: compared to -3.29% for the three months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Gross profit margin
−Removed: for tissue paper products was -38.92% for the three months ended September 30, 2019.
−Removed: Monthly gross profit
−Removed: margins on the sales of our CMP and offset printing paper for the 24-month period ended September 30, 2019 are as follows:
−Removed: Selling, General and Administrative
−Removed: Selling, general and
−Removed: administrative expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2019 were $2,024,547, a decrease of $805,386, or 28.46% from $2,829,933
−Removed: for the three months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: The decrease was mainly due to additional repair and maintenance costs incurred
−Removed: during the production suspension period in 2018.
−Removed: Income (Loss) from Operations
−Removed: Operating income for
−Removed: the quarter ended September 30, 2019 was $3,349,306, an increase of $4,919,659, or 313.28%, from loss from operations of $1,570,353
−Removed: for the quarter ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Other Income and Expenses
−Removed: Interest expense for
−Removed: the three months ended September 30, 2019 decreased by $135,289, from $372,276 in the three months ended September 30, 2018, to
−Removed: The Company had short-term and long-term interest-bearing loans and related party loans that aggregated $15,495,765 as
−Removed: of September 30, 2019, as compared to $24,915,688 as of September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Net Income (Loss)
−Removed: As a result and the
−Removed: factors discussed above, net income was $2,338,027 for the quarter ended September 30, 2019, representing an increase of $3,742,989,
−Removed: or 266.41%, from net loss of $1,404,962 for the quarter ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Comparison of the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: Revenue for the nine
−Removed: months ended September 30, 2019 was $84,008,157, an increase of $22,247,116, or 36.02%, from $61,761,041 for the same period in
−Removed: the previous year.
−Removed: Revenue of Offset Printing Paper, Corrugating
−Removed: Medium Paper and Tissue Paper Products
−Removed: Revenue from sales
−Removed: of offset printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 was $84,008,157, an increase
−Removed: of $22,260,938, or 36.05%, from $61,747,219 for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: This was mainly due to the increase in
−Removed: sales volume of CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products, which was partially offset by the decrease in ASP of Regular
−Removed: CMP and offset printing paper.
−Removed: Total quantities of offset printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products sold during the nine months
−Removed: ended September 30, 2019 amounted to 177,956 tonnes, an increase of 74,510 tonnes, or 72.03%, compared to 103,446 tonnes sold during
−Removed: the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Total quantities of CMP and offset printing paper sold increased by 69,813 tonnes in
−Removed: the nine months of 2019 as compared to the same period of 2018.
−Removed: We sold 4,697 tonnes of tissue paper products in the nine months
−Removed: The increase was mainly due to the production suspension that took place from late January 2018 to March 13, 2018 due
−Removed: to a government-mandated restriction on the natural gas supply, and the launch of our PM8 production line in December 2018 for
−Removed: production and sales of tissue paper products.
−Removed: The changes in revenue and quantity sold for the nine months ended September 30,
−Removed: 2019 and 2018 are summarized as follows:
−Removed: A summary of the above
−Removed: changes and further analyses of the changes in our sales revenue are as follows:
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30, 2019
−Removed: September 30, 2018
−Removed: Sales Revenue
−Removed: Quantity (Tonne)
−Removed: Quantity (Tonne)
−Removed: Quantity (Tonne)
−Removed: Light-Weight CMP
−Removed: Offset Printing Paper
−Removed: Tissue Paper Products
−Removed: Total CMP, Offset Printing Paper and Tissue Paper Revenue
−Removed: ASPs for our main
−Removed: products in the nine-month period ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 are summarized as follows:
−Removed: Offset Printing Paper ASP
−Removed: Regular CMP ASP
−Removed: Light-Weight CMP ASP
−Removed: Tissue Paper Products ASP
−Removed: Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018
−Removed: Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019
−Removed: Decrease from comparable period in the previous year
−Removed: Decrease by percentage
−Removed: Cost of Sales
−Removed: Total cost of sales
−Removed: for CMP, offset printing paper and tissue paper products in the nine months ended September 30, 2019 was $75,917,762, an increase
−Removed: of $17,753,372, or 30.52%, from $58,164,390 for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: This was mainly a result of the increase
−Removed: in volume sold, partially offset by decrease in cost of recycled paper board and recycled white scrap paper.
−Removed: Cost of sales for
−Removed: CMP was $60,759,533 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, as compared to $52,994,747 in the same period of 2018.
−Removed: in the cost of sales of $7,764,786 for CMP was mainly due to the increase in the quantities of CMP sold, partially offset by the
−Removed: decrease in cost of recycled paper board in the nine months of 2019.
−Removed: Average cost of sales per tonne for CMP decreased by 27.89%,
−Removed: from $545 for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, to $393 in the same period of 2019.
−Removed: The decrease was mainly attributable
−Removed: to the lower average unit purchase costs (net of applicable value added tax) of recycled paper board.
−Removed: Cost of sales for offset
−Removed: printing paper was $9,313,615 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, as compared to $5,169,643 in the same period of 2018.
−Removed: Average cost of sales per tonne of offset printing paper decreased by 40.48%, from $835 in the nine months ended September 30,
−Removed: 2018, to $497 in the same period of 2019.
−Removed: The decrease was mainly attributable to lower average unit purchase costs (net of applicable
−Removed: value added tax) of recycled white scrap paper.
−Removed: Cost of sales for tissue paper products was $5,844,614 for the nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2019.
−Removed: Average cost of sales per tonne of tissue paper products was $1,244 for the nine months ended September 30,
−Removed: Changes in cost of
−Removed: sales and cost per tonne by product for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 are summarized below:
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30, 2019
−Removed: Nine Months Ended
−Removed: September 30, 2018
−Removed: Change in percentage
−Removed: Cost of Sales
−Removed: Cost per Tonne
−Removed: Cost of Sales
−Removed: Cost per tonne
−Removed: Cost of Sales
−Removed: Cost per Tonne
−Removed: Cost of Sales
−Removed: Cost per Tone
−Removed: Light-Weight CMP
−Removed: Offset Printing Paper
−Removed: Tissue Paper Products
−Removed: Total CMP, Offset Printing Paper and Tissue Paper Revenue
−Removed: Gross profit for the
−Removed: nine months ended September 30, 2019 was $8,090,395 (9.63% of the total revenue), representing an increase of $4,510,938, or 126.02%,
−Removed: from the gross profit of $3,579,457 (5.80% of the total revenue) for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: The increase was
−Removed: mainly due to (i) the increase in quantities sold of CMP, offset printing paper, tissue paper and (ii) the decrease of material
−Removed: purchase price of CMP and offset printing paper, partially offset by the decrease of ASP of these products.
−Removed: Offset Printing Paper, CMP and Tissue
−Removed: Paper Products
−Removed: Gross profit for offset
−Removed: printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 was $8,090,395, an increase of $4,507,566,
−Removed: or 125.81%, from the gross profit of $3,582,830 for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: The overall gross
−Removed: profit margin for offset printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products increased by 3.83 percentage points, from 5.80% for the
−Removed: nine months ended September 30, 2018, to 9.63% for the nine months ended September 30, 2019.
−Removed: Gross profit margin
−Removed: for regular CMP for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 was 8.39%, or 1.78 percentage points higher, as compared to gross
−Removed: profit margin of 6.61% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Gross profit margin
−Removed: for light-weight CMP for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 was 7.10%, or 2.01 percentage points higher, as compared to gross
−Removed: profit margin of 5.09% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Gross profit margin
−Removed: for offset printing paper was 29.84% for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, an increase of 29.02 percentage points, as compared
−Removed: to 0.82% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Gross profit margin
−Removed: for tissue paper products for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 was -27.04%.
−Removed: Selling, General and Administrative
−Removed: Selling, general and
−Removed: administrative expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 were $7,413,879, a decrease of $2,257,113, or 23.34% from
−Removed: $9,670,992 for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: The decrease was mainly due to the depreciation of idle equipment and
−Removed: additional repair and maintenance costs incurred during the suspension of production in the first quarter of 2018.
−Removed: Income (Loss) from Operations
−Removed: Operating income for
−Removed: the nine months ended September 30, 2019 was $707,034, an increase of $6,808,595, or 111.59%, from loss from operations of $6,101,561
−Removed: for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: The increase in operating income was primarily due to the increase in gross profit
−Removed: and decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses.
−Removed: Other Income and Expenses
−Removed: Interest expense for
−Removed: the nine months ended September 30, 2019 decreased by $452,242, from $1,183,269 in the nine months ended September 30, 2018, to
−Removed: The Company had short-term and long-term interest-bearing loans and related party loans that aggregated $15,495,765 as
−Removed: of September 30, 2019, as compared to $24,915,688 as of September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Net Income (Loss)
−Removed: As a result of the
−Removed: above, net income was $65,502 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, representing an increase of $5,446,746, or 101.22%,
−Removed: from net loss of $5,381,244 for nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Accounts Receivable
−Removed: Net accounts receivable
−Removed: decreased by $101,328, or 3.52%, to $2,775,304 as of September 30, 2019, as compared with $2,876,632 as of December 31, 2018.
−Removed: usually collect accounts receivable within 30 days of delivery and completion of sales.
−Removed: Inventories consist
−Removed: of raw materials (accounting for 72.83% of total value of inventory as of September 30, 2019), semi-finished goods and finished
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019, the recorded value of inventory increased by 139.79% to $7,010,419 from $2,923,516 as of December
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019, the inventory of recycled paper board, which is the main raw material for the production of
−Removed: CMP, was $3,947,903, approximately $3,535,586, or 857.49%, higher than the balance as of December 31, 2018.
−Removed: Due to the volatility
−Removed: of recycled paper board price, we reduced the Company’s inventory of recycled paper board in December 2018.
−Removed: A summary of changes
−Removed: in major inventory items is as follows:
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: $ (8,729,188 )
+Added: average unit purchase costs (net of applicable value added tax) of recycled paper board in the three months ended March 31, 2020
+Added: were RMB1,388/tonne (approximately $198/tonne), as compared to RMB1,625/tonne (approximately $242/tonne) for the three months
+Added: ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: We use domestic recycled paper (sourced mainly from the Beijing-Tianjin metropolitan area) exclusively.
+Added: Although we do not rely on imported recycled paper, the pricing of which tends to be more volatile than domestic recycled paper,
+Added: our experience suggests that the pricing of domestic recycled paper bears some correlation to the pricing of imported recycled
+Added: pricing trends of our major raw materials for the 24-month period from April 2018 to March 2020 are shown below:
+Added: and gas are our two main energy sources.
+Added: Electricity and gas accounted for approximately 4% and 8.7% of total sales in first quarter
+Added: of 2020, respectively, compared to 9% and 10.2% of total sales in first quarter of 2019.
+Added: The monthly energy cost as a percentage
+Added: of total monthly sales of our main paper products for the 24 months ended March 31, 2020 are summarized as follows:
+Added: loss for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was $169,719 (1.94% of the total revenue), representing an increase of $22,747,
+Added: or 11.82%, from the gross loss of $192,466 (1.10% of the total revenue) for the three months ended March 31, 2019, as a result
+Added: of factors described above.
+Added: Printing Paper, CMP and Tissue Paper Products
+Added: loss for offset printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was $169,719, an increase
+Added: of $22,747, or 11.82%, from the gross loss of $192,466 for the three months ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: The increase was mainly the
+Added: result of the factors discussed above.
+Added: overall gross profit margin for offset printing paper, CMP and tissue paper products decreased by 0.84 percentage points, from
+Added: -1.10% for the three months ended March 31, 2019, to -1.94% for the three months ended March 31, 2020.
+Added: profit margin for regular CMP for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was 4.94%, or 5.32 percentage points higher, as compared
+Added: to gross profit margin of -0.38% for the three months ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: Such increase was mainly due to the decrease in cost
+Added: of recycled paper board, partially offset by the decrease in ASP of regular CMP in the first quarter of 2020.
+Added: profit margin for light-weight CMP for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was 12.89%, or 18.24 percentage points higher, as
+Added: compared to gross profit margin of -5.35% for the three months ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: The increase was mainly due to decrease in
+Added: cost of recycled paper board, partially offset by the decrease in ASP of light-weight CMP in the first quarter of 2020.
+Added: profit margin for tissue paper products for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was -70.74%, or 72.55 percentage points lower,
+Added: as compared to gross profit margin of 1.81% for the three months ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: The decrease was mainly due to higher unit
+Added: fixed cost absorbed as a result of lower volume of tissue paper produced in the first quarter of 2020.
+Added: gross profit margins on the sales of our CMP and offset printing paper for the 24-month period ended March 31, 2020 are as follows:
+Added: General and Administrative Expenses
+Added: general and administrative expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2020 were $2,696,963, a decrease of $284,510, or 9.54%
+Added: from $2,981,473 for the three months ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: The decrease was mainly due to a decrease in commission to sales staff
+Added: and a depreciation of RMB against USD.
+Added: (Loss) from Operations
+Added: loss for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 was $2,866,682, an increase of $307,257, or 9.68%, from $3,173,939 for the quarter ended
+Added: March 31, 2019.
+Added: Income and Expenses
+Added: expense for the three months ended March 31, 2020 decreased by $10,551, from $255,269 in the three months ended March 31, 2019,
+Added: The Company had short-term and long-term interest-bearing loans, related party loans and leasing obligations that
+Added: aggregated $14,904,518 as of March 31, 2020, as compared to $16,247,123 as of March 31, 2019.
+Added: income of $142,998 for the three month ended March 31, 2020 represents funding by the government to finance various expenditures
+Added: during the COVID-19 pandemic period.
+Added: Income (Loss)
+Added: a result and the factors discussed above, net loss was $2,436,287 for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, representing an increase
+Added: of $286,308, or 10.52%, from net loss of $2,722,595 for the quarter ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: accounts receivable decreased by $1,323,640, or 42.43%, to $1,795,671 as of March 31, 2020, as compared with $3,119,311 as of
+Added: December 31, 2019.
+Added: We usually collect accounts receivable within 30 days of delivery and completion of sales.
+Added: consist of raw materials (accounting for 50.46% of total value of inventory as of March 31, 2020), semi-finished goods and finished
+Added: As of March 31, 2020, the recorded value of inventory increased by 20.08% to $2,020,083 from $1,682,298 as of December
+Added: As of March 31, 2020, the inventory of recycled paper board, which is the main raw material for the production of CMP,
+Added: was $727,392, approximately $687,360, or 1717.03%, higher than the balance as of December 31, 2019.
+Added: Due to the volatility of recycled
+Added: paper board price, a minimum level of inventory was maintained at the end of 2019.
+Added: summary of changes in major inventory items is as follows:
Raw Materials
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Finished Goods
−Removed: Accounts Payable and Notes Payable
−Removed: Accounts payable and
−Removed: notes payable was $857,218 as of September 30, 2019, a decrease of 3,414,452, or 79.93%, from $4,271,670 as of December 31, 2018.
−Removed: Accounts payable was $857,218 and $629,054 as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: We have been relying on
−Removed: the bank acceptance notes issued under our credit facilities with Bank of Cangzhou to make the majority of our raw materials payments
−Removed: to our vendors.
−Removed: Our notes payable to Bank of Cangzhou were $nil and $3,642,616 as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: In January 2018, Bank of Cangzhou issued bank acceptance notes on our behalf for $3,642,616, which we paid off in
−Removed: January 2019.
−Removed: of September 30, 2019 the Company had current assets of $20,574,314 and current liabilities of $61,014,652 (including amounts
−Removed: due to related parties of $766,544 and interest payable for related party loans of $668,338), resulting in a working capital deficit
−Removed: of approximately $40,440,338;
−Removed: as of December 31, 2018, the Company had current assets of $24,158,872 and current liabilities of
−Removed: $29,634,267 (including amounts due to related parties of $1,030,790), resulting in a working capital deficit of approximately
−Removed: The deficit as of September 30, 2019 was mainly attributed to the payable for acquisition of Hebei Tengsheng.
−Removed: 25, 2019, Dongfang Paper entered into an acquisition agreement with shareholder of Hebei Tengsheng, to buy up 100% shares of Hebei
−Removed: Tengsheng with a purchase price of RMB 320 million (approximately $45 million).
−Removed: The payable will be due by December 25, 2019.
−Removed: If the amount is not fully paid off, the seller is offered an option to convert the outstanding amount to shares of the Company.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019, acquisition payable was $43,507,826, which was included in the current liabilities in the consolidated
−Removed: balance sheet.
+Added: Total inventory, gross
+Added: Inventory reserve
+Added: Total inventory, net
of operating lease
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On August 6, 2016 and August 6, 2018, the Company entered into two
−Removed: supplementary agreements with Hebei Fangsheng, who agreed to extend the lease term for another four years in total, with the same
−Removed: rental payment as original lease agreement.
−Removed: The accrued rental owed to Hebei Fangsheng was approximately $303,202 and $203,188
−Removed: as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively, and such amounts were recorded as part of the current liabilities.
−Removed: Expenditure Commitment as of September 30, 2019
+Added: supplementary agreements with Hebei Fangsheng, who agreed to extend the lease term to August 9, 2022 with the same rental payment
+Added: as provided for in the original lease agreement.
+Added: The accrued rental owed to Hebei Fangsheng was $nil and $56,552 as of March 31,
+Added: 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, and such amounts were recorded as part of the current liabilities.
+Added: Expenditure Commitment as of March 31, 2020
finance our daily operations mainly by cash flows generated from our business operations.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019, we had approximately
+Added: As of March 31, 2020, we had approximately
$0.9 million in capital expenditure commitments that were mainly related to improvement of Industrial Buildings.
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and Cash Equivalents
−Removed: cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash as of September 30, 2019 was $4,805,861, a decrease of $7,311,564, from $12,117,425
−Removed: as of December 31, 2018.
−Removed: The decrease of cash and cash equivalents for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 was attributable
−Removed: to a number of factors:
+Added: cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash as of March 31, 2020 was $11,712,152, an increase of $5,874,407, from $5,837,745 as
+Added: of December 31, 2019.
+Added: The increase of cash and cash equivalents for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was attributable to
+Added: a number of factors:
Net cash provided by operating activities
−Removed: cash provided by operating activities was $4,599,034 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019.
−Removed: The balance represented an
−Removed: increase of cash of $2,789,310, or 154.13%, from $1,809,724 provided for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 was $65,502, representing an increase of $5,446,746, or 101.22%, from a net loss
−Removed: of $5,381,244 for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: Changes in various asset and liability account balances throughout
−Removed: the nine months ended September 30, 2019 also contributed to the net change in cash from operating activities in nine months ended
−Removed: September 30, 2019.
−Removed: Chief among such changes is the decrease of accounts receivable in the amount of $16,894 during the nine months
−Removed: of 2019 and the decrease of notes payable in the amount of $3,648,250.
−Removed: There was also an increase of $4,307,754 in the ending
−Removed: inventory balance as of September 30, 2019 (a decrease to net cash for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 cash flow purposes).
−Removed: In addition, the Company had non-cash expenses relating to depreciation and amortization in the amount of $11,547,650.
−Removed: also had a net decrease of $185,780 in prepayment and other current assets (an increase to net cash) and a net increase of $1,127,175
−Removed: in other payables and accrued liabilities and related parties (an increase to net cash), as well as an increase in income tax
−Removed: payable of $1,155,880 (an increase to net cash) during the nine months ended September 30, 2019.
+Added: cash provided by operating activities was $6,860,307 for the three months ended March 31, 2020.
+Added: The balance represented an increase
+Added: of cash of $9,912,459, or 324.77%, from $3,052,152 used in operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: loss for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was $2,436,287, representing an increase of $286,308, or 10.52%, from a net loss
+Added: of $2,722,595 for the three months ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: Changes in various asset and liability account balances throughout the
+Added: three months ended March 31, 2020 also contributed to the net change in cash from operating activities in three months ended March
+Added: Chief among such changes is the decrease of accounts receivable in the amount of $1,315,128 during the three months
+Added: of 2020 (an increase to net cash).
+Added: There was also an increase of $373,470 in the ending inventory balance as of March 31, 2020
+Added: (a decrease to net cash for the three months ended March 31, 2020 cash flow purposes).
+Added: In addition, the Company had non-cash expenses
+Added: relating to depreciation and amortization in the amount of $3,774,674.
+Added: The Company also had a net decrease of $5,486,216 in prepayment
+Added: and other current assets (an increase to net cash) and a net decrease of $1,023,343 in other payables and accrued liabilities
+Added: and related party balances (an increase to net cash), as well as a decrease in income tax payable of $1,379,130 (a decrease to
+Added: net cash) during the three months ended March 31, 2020.
Net cash used in investing activities
−Removed: incurred $6,449,181 in net cash expenditures for investing activities during the nine months of 2019, as compared to $1,812,280
+Added: incurred $756,514 in net cash expenditures for investing activities during the first three months of 2020, as compared to $1,415,761
for the same period of 2019.
−Removed: Payments in the nine months ended September 30, 2019 were for acquisition of Hebei Tengsheng and
−Removed: expenditures on improvement of industrial building.
+Added: Payments in the three months ended March 31, 2020 were for the expenditures on improvement of industrial
Net cash provided by financing activities
−Removed: cash used in financing activities was $ 5,224,295 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019, as compared to net cash provided
−Removed: by financing activities in the amount of $764,760 financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: was mainly attributable to repayment of bank loans in the nine months ended September 30, 2018.
−Removed: September 30,
+Added: cash used in financing activities was $nil for the three months ended March 31, 2020, as compared to net cash used in financing
+Added: activities in the amount of $5,366,166 for the three months ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: April 29, 2020, the Company and certain institutional investors entered into a securities purchase agreement, as amended on May
+Added: 4, 2020, pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell to such investors an aggregate of 4,400,000 shares of common stock in a
+Added: registered direct offering and warrants to purchase up to 4,400,000 shares of the Company’s common stock in
+Added: a concurrent private placement, for gross proceeds of approximately $2.55 million.
+Added: The Company plans to raise additional capital
+Added: through sales of the Company’s capital stock if necessary.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (“ICBC”) Loan 1
−Removed: Bank of Cangzhou
Total short-term bank loans
−Removed: February 6, 2018, the Company entered into a working capital loan agreement with the
−Removed: ICBC, with a balance of $4,079,730 as of December 31, 2018.
−Removed: The working capital
−Removed: loan was guaranteed by Hebei Tengsheng with its land use right pledged as collateral
−Removed: for the benefit of the bank.
−Removed: The loan bears a fixed interest rate of 5.4% per annum.
−Removed: The loan was due and repaid on January 28, 2019.
−Removed: January 2, 2018, the Company entered into a working capital loan agreement with the Bank
−Removed: of Cangzhou, with a balance of $5,099,662 as of December 31, 2018.
−Removed: The loan bore a fixed
−Removed: interest rate of 6.09% per annum.
−Removed: The working capital loan was secured by the Company’s
−Removed: land use right and guaranteed by the Company’s CEO and Baoding Shengde with its
−Removed: production equipment as collateral for the benefit of the bank.
−Removed: The loan was due and
−Removed: repaid on January 3, 2019.
−Removed: November 22, 2018, the Company entered into a working capital loan agreement with the ICBC, with a balance of $2,544,925 and
−Removed: $2,622,683 as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: The working capital loan is secured by the Company’s
−Removed: land use right as collateral for the benefit of the bank.
−Removed: The loan bears a fixed interest rate of 4.741% per annum.
−Removed: will be due by November 26, 2019.
−Removed: January 28, 2019, the Company entered into a working capital loan agreement with the ICBC, with a balance of $3,817,387 as
−Removed: of September 30, 2019.
−Removed: The working capital loan was guaranteed by Hebei Tengsheng with its land use right pledged as collateral
−Removed: for the benefit of the bank.
+Added: December 20, 2019, the Company entered into a working capital loan agreement with the ICBC, with a balance of $6,069,075 and $6,163,814
+Added: as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
+Added: The working capital loan was secured by the land use right of Hebei
+Added: Tengsheng as collateral for the benefit of the bank.
The loan bears a fixed interest rate of 4.785% per annum.
−Removed: The loan will be due and repaid by
−Removed: January 30, 2020.
−Removed: of September 30, 2019, there were guaranteed short-term borrowings of $6,362,312 and unsecured bank loans of $nil.
+Added: The loan will be
+Added: due and repaid by December 23, 2020.
+Added: of March 31, 2020, there were guaranteed short-term borrowings of $6,069,075 and unsecured bank loans of $nil.
As of December
31, 2019, there were guaranteed short-term borrowings of $6,163,814 and unsecured bank loans of $nil.
−Removed: average short-term borrowing rates for the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were approximately 4.77% and 5.59%,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: The average short-term borrowing rates for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were approximately
−Removed: 4.76% and 5.58%, respectively.
+Added: average short-term borrowing rates for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 were approximately 4.79% and 4.76%, respectively.
loans from credit union
−Removed: of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, loans payable to Rural Credit Union of Xushui District, amounted to $7,012,682 and
+Added: of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, loans payable to Rural Credit Union of Xushui District, amounted to $8,835,443 and $8,973,367,
respectively.
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for additional 5 years and will be due and payable in various installments from December 21, 2018 to November 5, 2023.
−Removed: As of September
31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, total outstanding loan balance was $1,213,815 and $1,232,763, respectively.
Out of the total outstanding
−Removed: loan balance, current portion amounted were $113,108 and $87,423 as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively,
−Removed: which are presented as current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and the remaining balance of $1,102,801 and $1,165,637
−Removed: are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
+Added: loan balance, current portion amounted were $141,141 and $143,345 as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, which
+Added: are presented as current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and the remaining balance of $1,072,674 and $1,089,418
+Added: are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
July 15, 2013, the Company entered into a loan agreement with the Rural Credit Union of Xushui District for a term of 5 years,
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The loan is secured by certain of the Company’s manufacturing equipment with net book value of $3,443,097 and $3,935,270
−Removed: as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: Interest payment is due quarterly and bears a fixed rate of 0.64%
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the total outstanding loan balance was $3,534,617 and $3,642,615, respectively.
−Removed: Out of the total outstanding loan balance, current portion amounted were $127,246 and $101,993 as of September 30, 2019 and December
+Added: as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
+Added: Interest payment is due quarterly and bears a fixed rate of 0.64% per
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the total outstanding loan balance was $3,528,532 and $3,583,613, respectively.
+Added: Out of the total outstanding loan balance, current portion amounted were $169,370 and $172,013 as of March 31, 2020 and December
31, 2019, respectively, which are presented as current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and the remaining balance
−Removed: of $3,407,371 and $3,540,622 are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2019
−Removed: and December 31, 2018, respectively.
−Removed: April 20, 2017, the Company entered into a loan agreement with the Rural Credit Union of Xushui District for a term of 2 years,
−Removed: which was due and payable in various installments from August 26, 2017 to April 19, 2019.
−Removed: The loan was guaranteed by Hebei Tengsheng
−Removed: with its land use right pledged as collateral for the benefit of the bank.
−Removed: Interest payment was due quarterly and bore a fixed
−Removed: rate of 0.6% per month.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the total outstanding loan balance was $nil and $2,302,133,
−Removed: respectively, which are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2019 and December
−Removed: 31, 2018, respectively.
+Added: of $3,359,162 and $3,411,600 are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2020 and
+Added: December 31, 2019, respectively.
April 17, 2019, the Company entered into a loan agreement with the Rural Credit Union of Xushui District for a term of 2 years,
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0.6% per month.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the total outstanding loan balance was $2,262,156 and $nil, respectively.
−Removed: Out of the total outstanding loan balance, current portion amounted were $70,692 and $nil as of September 30, 2019 and December
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the total outstanding loan balance was $2,258,260 and $2,293,512,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: Out of the total outstanding loan balance, current portion amounted were $1,129,130 and $1,146,756 as of March 31,
+Added: 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, which are presented as current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and the
+Added: remaining balance of $1,129,130 and $1,146,756 are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of
+Added: March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
+Added: December 12, 2019, the Company entered into a loan agreement with the Rural Credit Union of Xushui District for a term of 2 years,
+Added: which was due and payable in various installments from June 21, 2020 to December 11, 2021.
+Added: The loan is secured by Hebei Tengsheng
+Added: with its land use right as collateral for the benefit of the bank.
+Added: Interest payment is due monthly and bears a fixed rate of 7.56%
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the total outstanding loan balance was $1,834,836 and $1,863,479, respectively.
+Added: Out of the total outstanding loan balance, current portion amounted were $141,141 and $143,345 as of March 31, 2020 and December
31, 2019, respectively, which are presented as current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and the remaining balance
−Removed: of $2,191,464 and $nil are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2019 and
+Added: of $1,693,695 and $1,720,134 are presented as non-current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2020 and
December 31, 2019, respectively.
−Removed: interest expenses for the short-term bank loans and long-term loans for the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were
+Added: interest expenses for the short-term bank loans and long-term loans for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 were $244,718
and $230,953, respectively.
−Removed: Total interest expenses for the short-term bank loans and long-term loans for the nine months
−Removed: ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were $445,860 and $620,294, respectively.
Zhenyong Liu, the Company’s CEO has loaned money to Dongfang Paper for working capital purposes over a period of time.
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Zhenyong Liu, which were recorded in other payables and accrued liabilities as part of the current liabilities in the consolidated
−Removed: balance sheet as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
+Added: balance sheet as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively.
December 10, 2014, Mr.
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the remaining balance, together with interest of $20,400.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, approximately $42,415
−Removed: and $43,711 of interest were outstanding to Mr.
−Removed: Zhenyong Liu, which was recorded in other payables and accrued liabilities as
−Removed: part of the current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, approximately $42,342 and
+Added: $43,003 of interest were outstanding to Mr.
+Added: Zhenyong Liu, which was recorded in other payables and accrued liabilities as part
+Added: of the current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet.
March 1, 2015, the Company entered an agreement with Mr.
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Zhenyong Liu, together with interest of $158,651.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the
−Removed: outstanding loan balance were $2,120,771 and $2,185,569, respectively, and the accrued interest was $263,506 and $200,253, respectively,
−Removed: which was recorded in other payables and accrued liabilities as part of the current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet.
−Removed: of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, total amount of loans due to Mr.
−Removed: Zhenyong Liu were $2,120,771 and $2,185,569, respectively.
−Removed: The interest expense incurred for such related party loans are $23,234 and $62,130 for the three months ended September 30, 2019
−Removed: and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: The interest expenses incurred for such related party loans are $71,415 and $252,829 for the nine months
−Removed: ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: The accrued interest owed to the CEO was approximately $668,338 and $617,454,
−Removed: as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively, which was recorded in other payables and accrued liabilities.
−Removed: of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, amount due to shareholder are $319,129 and $210,148, respectively, which represents
−Removed: funds from shareholders to pay for various expenses incurred in the U.S.
+Added: In December 2019, the company paid off the remaining
+Added: balance, together with interest of 94,636.
+Added: As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the outstanding loan balance were $nil
+Added: and the accrued interest was $193,981 and $197,009, respectively, which was recorded in other payables and accrued liabilities
+Added: as part of the current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet.
+Added: of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, total amount of loans due to Mr.
+Added: Zhenyong Liu were $nil.
+Added: The interest expense incurred
+Added: for such related party loans are $nil and $24,316 for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: interest owed to the CEO was approximately $598,116 and $607,453, as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, which
+Added: was recorded in other payables and accrued liabilities.
+Added: of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, amount due to shareholder are $617,433 and $483,433, respectively, which represents funds
+Added: from shareholders to pay for various expenses incurred in the U.S.
The amount is due on demand with interest free.
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manufacturing industry.
−Removed: For the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, no events or circumstances occurred for which
−Removed: an evaluation of the recoverability of long-lived assets was required.
−Removed: We are currently not aware of any events or circumstances
−Removed: that may indicate any need to record such impairment in the future.
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, no events or circumstances occurred for which an evaluation
+Added: of the recoverability of long-lived assets was required.
+Added: We are currently not aware of any events or circumstances that may indicate
+Added: any need to record such impairment in the future.
Currency Translation
functional currency of Dongfang Paper and Baoding Shengde is the Chinese Yuan Renminbi (“RMB”).
−Removed: Topic 830-30, all assets and liabilities are translated into United States dollars using the current exchange rate at the end
−Removed: of each fiscal period.
−Removed: The current exchange rates used by the Company as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018 to translate
−Removed: the Chinese RMB to the U.S.
+Added: Under ASC Topic 830-30,
+Added: all assets and liabilities are translated into United States dollars using the current exchange rate at the end of each fiscal
+Added: The current exchange rates used by the Company as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 to translate the Chinese RMB
Dollars are 7.0851:1 and 6.9762:1, respectively.
−Removed: Revenues and expenses are translated using the prevailing
−Removed: average exchange rates at 6.8526:1, and 6.5380:1 for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: adjustments are included in other comprehensive income (loss).
+Added: Revenues and expenses are translated using the prevailing average
+Added: exchange rates at 6.9931:1, and 6.7087:1 for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: Translation adjustments
+Added: are included in other comprehensive income (loss).
Sheet Arrangements
−Removed: were the guarantor for Baoding Huanrun Trading Co., for its long-term bank loans in an amount of $4,382,926 (RMB31,000,000), which
−Removed: matures at various times in in 2018 -2023.
+Added: were the guarantor for Baoding Huanrun Trading Co., for its long-term bank loans in an amount of $4,375,379 (RMB31,000,000),
+Added: which matures at various times in 2020 -2023.
Baoding Huanrun Trading Co.
is one of our major suppliers of raw materials.
−Removed: us to maintain a good relationship with the supplier and negotiate for better terms in payment for materials.
−Removed: If Huanrun Trading
+Added: This helps us to maintain a good relationship with the supplier and negotiate for better terms in payment for materials.
+Added: Huanrun Trading Co.
were to become insolvent, the Company could be materially adversely affected.
−Removed: Except as aforesaid, we have no material off-balance
−Removed: sheet transactions.
+Added: Except as aforesaid, we
+Added: have no material off-balance sheet transactions.
Accounting Pronouncements
−Removed: June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2016-13, “Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326):
−Removed: Measurement of Credit Losses
−Removed: on Financial Instruments”
−Removed: (“ASU 2016-13”).
−Removed: Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326) amends guidelines
−Removed: on reporting credit losses for assets held at amortized cost basis and available-for-sale debt securities.
−Removed: For assets held at
−Removed: amortized cost basis, Topic 326 eliminates the probable initial recognition threshold in current GAAP and, instead, requires an
−Removed: entity to reflect its current estimate of all expected credit losses.
−Removed: The allowance for credit losses is a valuation account that
−Removed: is deducted from the amortized cost basis of the financial assets to present the net amount expected to be collected.
−Removed: For available-for-sale
−Removed: debt securities, credit losses should be measured in a manner similar to current GAAP, however Topic 326 will require that credit
−Removed: losses be presented as an allowance rather than as a write-down.
−Removed: ASU 2016-13 affects entities holding financial assets and net
−Removed: investment in leases that are not accounted for at fair value through net income.
−Removed: The amendments affect loans, debt securities,
−Removed: trade receivables, net investments in leases, off balance sheet credit exposures, reinsurance receivables, and any other financial
−Removed: assets not excluded from the scope that have the contractual right to receive cash.
−Removed: The amendments in this ASU will be effective
−Removed: for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim periods within those fiscal years.
−Removed: We are currently evaluating
−Removed: the impact of the adoption of ASU 2016-13 on our condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, Disclosure Framework-Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement.
+Added: The amendments in this standard will remove, modify and add certain disclosures under ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurement, with
+Added: the objective of improving disclosure effectiveness.
+Added: ASU 2018-13 will be effective for the Company’s fiscal year beginning
+Added: April 1, 2020, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: The transition requirements are dependent upon each amendment within this update
+Added: and will be applied either prospectively or retrospectively.
+Added: The Company does not expect ASU 2018-13 to have a material impact
+Added: to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
+Added: December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740) Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes.
+Added: The amendments
+Added: in this Update related to separate financial statements of legal entities that are not subject to tax should be applied on a retrospective
+Added: basis for all periods presented.
+Added: The amendments related to changes in ownership of foreign equity method investments or foreign
+Added: subsidiaries should be applied on a modified retrospective basis through a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as
+Added: of the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption.
+Added: The amendments related to franchise taxes that are partially based on income
+Added: should be applied on either a retrospective basis for all periods presented or a modified retrospective basis through a cumulative-effect
+Added: adjustment to retained earnings as of the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption.
+Added: All other amendments should be applied on
+Added: a prospective basis.
+Added: We do not expect the adoption of ASU 2019-12 to have a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial
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