Company: RETO
Filing Date: 2025-09-15
Form Type: F-1
Source: 0001213900-25-087644
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Company: ReTo Eco-Solutions, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-15
Form: F-1
Chunk 20
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 transfer of cash among our subsidiaries is subject to internal approvals from at least two manager-level personnel, with required procedures including submitting supporting documentation (such as payment receipts or invoices), responsible personnel reviewing the documentation, and executing the payment. A single employee is not allowed to complete each and every stage of a cash transfer, but rather only specific parts of the whole procedure. 3 There is no assurance that the PRC government will not intervene or impose restrictions on the ability of us or our subsidiaries to transfer cash. Most of our cash is in Renminbi, and the PRC government could prevent the cash maintained in our bank accounts in mainland China from leaving mainland China, could restrict deployment of the cash into the business of our subsidiaries and restrict the ability to pay dividends. For details regarding the restrictions on our ability to transfer cash between us, and our subsidiaries, see “ Item 3. Key Information — D. Risk Factors — Risks Related to Doing Business in China — The PRC government could prevent the cash maintained in our bank accounts in mainland China from leaving mainland China, restrict deployment of the cash into the business of its subsidiaries and restrict the ability to pay dividends to U.S. investors, which could materially adversely affect our operations” in our 2024 Annual Report, which is incorporated by reference into this prospectus. We currently do not have cash management policies that dictate how funds are transferred between our BVI holding company and our subsidiaries. Restrictions on Our Ability to Transfer Cash Out of China and to U.S. Investors Our PRC subsidiaries’ ability to distribute dividends is based upon their distributable earnings. Current PRC regulations permit our PRC subsidiaries to pay dividends to their respective shareholders only out of their accumulated profits, if any, as determined in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations. In addition, under PRC law, each of our PRC subsidiaries is required to set aside at least 10% of its after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund certain statutory reserve funds until such reserve funds reach 50% of its registered capital. These reserves are not distributable as cash dividends. If any of our PRC subsidiaries incurs debt on its own behalf in the future, the instruments governing such debt may restrict its ability to pay dividends to ReTo. To address persistent capital outflows and the RMB’s depreciation against the U.S. dollar in the fourth quarter of 2016, the People’s Bank of China and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, or SAFE, implemented a series of capital control measures in the subsequent