Company: KMRK
Filing Date: 2025-01-02
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0001213900-25-000267
Chunk: 37

Company: K-TECH SOLUTIONS CO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-01-02
Form: DRS
Chunk 37
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.S. regulatory access to audit information are uncertain, as the legislative developments are subject to the legislative process and the regulatory developments are subject to the rule -makingprocess and other administrative procedures. While we understand there has been dialogue among the CSRC, the SEC, and the PCAOB regarding the inspection of PCAOB registered accounting firms in mainland China and Hong Kong, there can be no assurance that we will be able to comply with requirements imposed by U.S. regulators if there is significant change to current political arrangements between mainland China and Hong Kong or if any component of our auditor’s work papers become located in mainland China in the future. Delisting of our Ordinary Shares would force holders of our Ordinary Shares to sell their Ordinary Shares. The market price of our Ordinary Shares could be adversely affected as a result of anticipated negative impacts of these executive or legislative actions, regardless of whether these executive or legislative actions are implemented and regardless of our actual operating performance. Recent joint statement by the SEC and PCAOB, and the HFCA Act all call for additional and more stringent criteria to be applied to emerging market companies upon assessing the qualification of their auditors, especially the non-U .S. auditors who are not inspected by the PCAOB. The AHFCA Act was enacted on December 29, 2022. On December 29, 2022, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act was signed into law, which contained, among other things, an identical provision to the AHFCA Act and amended the HFCA Act by requiring the SEC to prohibit an issuer’s securities from trading on any U.S. stock exchanges if its auditor is not subject to PCAOB inspections for two consecutive years instead of three years. The AHFCA Act states that if the SEC determines that an issuer has filed audit reports issued by a registered public accounting firm that has not been subject to inspection by the PCAOB for two consecutive years, the SEC shall prohibit the securities of the issuer from being traded on a national securities exchange or in the over -the -countertrading market in the U.S. (the applicable period under the HFCA Act prior to the enactment of the AHFCA Act had been two years). 17 On March 24, 2021, the SEC adopted interim final rules relating to the implementation of certain disclosure and documentation requirements of the HFCA Act. A company will be required to comply with these rules if the SEC identifies it as having a “non -inspection” year under a process to be subsequently established by the SEC. The SEC is