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Legal Documents 1. Commodity Tax Act. Ministry of Finance, R. O. C., November 22, 2007. 2. Customs Law. Ministry of Finance, R. O. C., May 5, 2004. 3. Income Tax Act. Ministry of Finance, R. O. C., February 6, 2007. 4. Standards for Identifying Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Ministry of Economic Affairs, November 25, 1991. 5. Statute for Investment by Foreign Nationals. Investment Commission, Ministry of Economic Affairs, amended on November 17, 1997. 6. Tax Treatment of Foreign Investment. Ministry of Finance, R. O. C., August 1, 2004. 7. Value-added and Non-value-added Business Tax Act, Ministry of Finance, R. O. C., May 28, 2007. Websites 1. The official website of Mirror International Jewellery Store: http://www.alphamoon.com.tw 2. The official website of International Amber Association: http://amber.org.pl/en 3. Carol Hand & Craft Co., Ltd.: www.carolamber.com.cn 4. The official website of Ministry of Taiwan, R. O. C.: http://www.dot.gov.tw 5. The official website of Taiwan Statistics Bureau: http://eng.stat.gov.tw 6. The official website of Directorate General of Customs, Ministry of Finance, R. O. C.: http://eweb.customs.gov.tw 7. The official website of FedEx, International Resource Centre, Taiwan Country Profile: http://www.fedex.com/us/international/irc/profiles/irc_tw_profile.html?gtmcc=us 8. The official website of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: http://www.frbsf.org/education/activities/drecon/answerxml.cfm?selectedurl=/2005/0507.html 9. The official website of International Colored Gemstone Association, information about amber: http://www.gemstone.org/gem-by-gem/english/amber.html 10. Government Information Office, Republic of China: http://www.gio.gov.tw 11. Goldmajor Group, Britain’s leading jewellery supplier: http://www.goldmajor.com 12. The website about Types of Amber, Copal and Resin: http://www.gplatt.demon.co.uk/typesof.htm 13. Ravfehr ApS – House of Amber, Danish amber producer: http://www.houseofamber.com 14. The Department of Investment Services (DOIS), the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA): http://investintaiwan.nat.gov.tw 15. The official website of Japan Commercial Arbitration Association http://www.jcaa.or.jp/e/carnet-e/what.html 16. The website about how some products are made, including amber: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-7/Amber.html 17. Internet Center for Management and Business Administration, Inc.: http://www.quickmba.com/strategy/generic.shtml 18. Official website of the Department of Statistics to the Government of Lithuania: http://www.stat.gov.lt/en 19. Tutor2u, Online Learning Resource: http://www.tutor2u.net/business/presentations/marketing/productpositioning/default.html 20. Official website of World Economic Forum: http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm 21. Wikipedia, Online Encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org 22. Western Illinois Entrepreneurship Center: http://www.wiuec.org/workshops/culture/econ_taiwan.htm 23. Lexical database of English: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn Acknowledgements 1. Ms. Joyce Chang (張秀選), the owner of Laluna Shop 2. Mr. Alex Lee (李東翔), the shop manager of Amberhouse, The Mall, Far Easten Hotel 3. Mr. Kazimieras Mizgiris is the owner of the amber museum galleries in Vilnius and Nida; very well known Lithuanian amber expert, Member of World Amber Council, member of International Amber Association, honour member of Association "Work with Amber" in Hamburg University. 4. The consultants of the Mirror Shop in Taipei 101. |