GD Culture Group Ltd - Quarter Report: 2018 September (Form 10-Q)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

☒ QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2018

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from __________ to __________

Commission File Number: 001-37513

TMSR HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: +86 022-5982-4800

Not applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Website, if any, every Interactive Date File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒

As of November 14, 2018, there were 23,789,255 shares of the Company’s common stock issued and outstanding.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I — FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

TMSR HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED AND SUBSIDIARIES

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(UNAUDITED)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

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UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

(UNAUDITED)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

TMSR HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED AND SUBSIDIARIES

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(UNAUDITED)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Note 1 – Nature of business and organization

TMSR Holding Company Limited (the “Company” or “TMSR”), formerly known as JM Global Holding Company (“JM Global”), was a blank check company incorporated in Delaware on April 10, 2015. The Company was formed for the purpose of acquiring, through a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, exchangeable share transaction or other similar business transaction, one or more operating businesses or assets (“Business Combination”). On June 20, 2018, TMSR completed a reincorporation and as a result, the Company changed its state of incorporation from Delaware to Nevada. The Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of TMSR Nevada became the governing instruments of the Company, resulting in a 2-for-1 forward stock split of the Company’s common stock (the “Forward Split). The Reincorporation and Forward Split were approved by shareholders holding the majority of the outstanding shares of common stock of TMSR Delaware on June 1, 2018 at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

On February 6, 2018, China Sunlong Environmental Technology Inc. (“China Sunlong”) consummated the business combination (the “Business Combination”) with JM Global pursuant to a Share Exchange Agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”) dated as of August 28, 2017 by and among (i) JM Global; (ii) Zhong Hui Holding Limited; (iii) China Sunlong; (iv) each of the shareholders of China Sunlong named on Annex I of the Share Exchange Agreement (the “Sellers”); and (v) Chuanliu Ni, a Chinese citizen who is the Chief Executive Officer and director of China Sunlong, in the capacity as the representative for the Sellers. Pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement, JM Global acquired from the Sellers all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of China Sunlong in exchange for 17,990,856 newly-issued shares of common stock of JM Global to the Sellers. 1,799,088 of these newly-issued shares are held in escrow for 18 months from the closing date of the Business Combination as a security for China Sunlong and the Sellers’ indemnification obligations under the Share Exchange Agreement. This transaction is accounted for as a “reverse merger” and recapitalization at the date of the consummation of the transaction since the shareholders of China Sunlong owns the majority of the outstanding shares of JM Global immediately following the completion of the transaction and JM Global’s operations was the operations of China Sunlong following the transaction. Accordingly, China Sunlong was deemed to be the accounting acquirer in the transaction and the transaction was treated as a recapitalization of China Sunlong.

China Sunlong is a holding company incorporated on August 31, 2015, under the laws of the Cayman Islands. China Sunlong has no substantive operations other than holding all of the outstanding share capital of Shengrong Environmental Protection Holding Company Limited (“Shengrong BVI”). Shengrong BVI is a holding company incorporated on June 30, 2015, under the laws of the British Virgin Islands. Shengrong BVI has no substantive operations other than holding all of the outstanding share capital of Hong Kong Shengrong Environmental Technology Limited (“Shengrong HK”). Shengrong HK is also a holding company holding all of the outstanding equity of Shengrong Environmental Protection Technology (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. (“Shengrong WFOE”).

The Company focuses on the industrial solid waste recycling and comprehensive utilization. The Company’s main products are high efficiency permanent magnetic separators and comprehensive utilization systems for industrial solid wastes. The Company’s headquarter is located in Hubei Province, in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC” or “China”). All of the Company’s business activities are carried out by the wholly owned operating Chinese company, Hubei Shengrong Environmental Protection Energy-Saving Science and Technology Ltd. (“Hubei Shengrong”) prior to May 1, 2018.

TMSR HOLDING COMPANY LIMITED AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

On April 11, 2018, the Company, Shengrong WFOE and Hubei Shengrong, both of which are the Company’s indirectly owned subsidiaries (collectively “Purchasers”), entered into a Share Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Long Liao, Chunyong Zheng, Wuhan Modern Industrial Technology Research Institute, and Hubei Zhonggong Materials Group Co., Ltd. (collectively “Sellers” ) and Wuhan HOST Coating Materials Co., Ltd. (“Wuhan HOST”), a company incorporated in China engaging in the research, development, production and sale of coating materials. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Purchasers acquired all of the outstanding equity interests of Wuhan Host (the “Acquisition”). In exchange for the transfer of 100% equity interest of Wuhan Host, Purchasers shall pay a total consideration of $11.2 million (“Total Consideration”), of which $ 5.2 million or RMB equivalent shall be paid in cash (“Cash Consideration”) and $6.0 million shall be paid in shares of common stock (“Common Stock”), par value $0.0001, of TMSR (“Share Consideration”). The Parties agree the Share Consideration shall be an aggregate of 1,293,104 shares of common stock of which is based on the closing price of US$4.64 on March 27, 2018. The Share Consideration shall be issued in three equal installments, which shall be subject to lock-up of 12, 24 and 36 months, respectively. The Purchase Agreement contains representations, warranties and covenants customary for acquisitions of this type. The Acquisition closed on May 1, 2018. Starting on May 1, 2018, the Company’s business activities added the research, development, production and sale of coating materials.

On August 16, 2018, The Purchasers and the Sellers entered into a supplement agreement (“Supplement Agreement”), which modified the terms of consideration set forth in the Purchase Agreement entered between Purchasers and Sellers on April 11, 2018. Pursuant to the Supplement Agreement, in exchange for the transfer of 100% equity interest of Wuhan Host, Purchasers shall pay a total consideration of $11.2 million (“Total Consideration”), of which $ 6.5 million or RMB equivalent shall be paid in cash (“Cash Consideration”) and $4.7 million shall be paid in shares of common stock (“Common Stock”), par value $0.0001, of TMSR (“Share Consideration”). In the Supplement Agreement, both Purchasers and Sellers also agreed to delete the section 3.3 of the Share Purchase Agreement, a section that stipulates the Share Consideration shall be issued in three equal installments.

On March 31, 2017, China Sunlong completed its acquisition of 100% of the equity in TJComex International Group Corporation (“TJComex BVI”). At the closing of such acquisition, the selling shareholders of TJComex BVI received 5,935 shares (“Payment Shares”) of China Sunlong Common Stock valued at $926.71 per share for 100% of their equity in TJComex BVI. TJComex BVI owns 100% of the issued and outstanding capital stock of TJComex Hong Kong Company Limited (“TJComex HK”), a Hong Kong limited liability company, which owns 100% equity interest of Tianjin Corro Technological Consulting Co., Ltd. (“TJComex WFOE”), a wholly foreign owned enterprise incorporated under the laws of the PRC. Pursuant to certain contractual arrangements, TJComex WFOE controls Tianjin Commodity Exchange Co., Ltd. (“TJComex Tianjin”), a limited liability company incorporated under the law of the PRC. TJComex Tianjin is engaged in general merchandise trading business and related consulting services, and its headquarter is located in the city of Tianjin, PRC.

On April 2, 2018, the Company disposed of its subsidiary, TJComex BVI in consideration of (i) its minimum contribution to the Company’s results of operation and (ii) the unsatisfactory synergy between the TJComex BVI business and the rest of the Company’s business. The Company’s decision to dispose of TJComex BVI is to (i) improve the Company’s overall financial condition and results of operations, (ii) reduce the complexity of the Company’s business, (iii) focus the Company’s resources on the solid waste recycling business as well as developing environmental control business opportunities; and (iv) make it possible for the Company to pursue acquisition opportunities for more compatible businesses. TJComex BVI was disposed to Chuanliu Ni, a Chinese citizen who is the director of China Sunlong.

As of April 2, 2018, the net assets of TJComex BVI were $16,598 and is being recorded as a loss from disposal of subsidiary in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the period ending September 30, 2018. As TJComex operating revenue was less than 1% of the Company’s revenue and the disposal did not constitute a strategic shift that will have a major effect on the Company’s operations and financial results, the results of operations for TJComex were not reported as discontinued operations under the guidance of Accounting Standards Codification 205.

On October 10, 2017, Hubei Shengrong established a wholly owned subsidiary, Fujian Shengrong Environmental Protection Energy-Saving Science and Technology Ltd. (“Fujian Shengrong”), with registered capital of RMB 10,000,000 (approximately USD 1,518,120). Fujian Shengrong has no operations prior to May 30, 2018. On May 30, 2018, Hubei Shengrong and two unrelated entities entered into certain Capital Transfer and Contribution Agreement pursuant to which these two entities shall contribute cash of approximately USD 5.0 million (RMB 32.0 million) into Fujian Shengrong and Hubei Shengrong shall contribute approximately USD 1.3 million (RMB 8.0 million) which is the consideration for certain technology consulting services to be provided by Hubei Shengrong to the two entities. Upon completion of the contribution, the total registered capital of Fujian Shengrong increased to RMB 40.0 million (approximately USD 6.3 million) and Hubai Shengrong owns 20% and the two entities collectively own 80% of the equity interest of Fujian Shengrong. In August, 2018, Hubei Shengrong transferred 20% equity interest of Fujian Shengrong to Shengrong WFOE. The Company will account for the investment in Fujian Shengrong using the cost method. Since Hubei Shengrong or Shengrong WFOE did not provide any cash contribution to Fujian Shengrong or technology services to the two entities, the investment balance under the cost method investment on September 30, 2018 is $0.0.

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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect the activities of China Sunlong and each of the following entities:

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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Note 2 – Summary of significant accounting policies

Basis of presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for information pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

In the opinion of management, all adjustments (which include normal recurring adjustments) necessary to present a fair presentation of the Company’s financial position, its results of operations and its cash flows, as applicable, have been made. Interim results are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for the full year. The information included in this Form 10-Q should be read in conjunction with information included in the Company’s 2017 annual report on Form 10-K filed on April 2, 2018 and the Company’s current report on Form 8-K filed on March 21, 2018.

Principles of consolidation

The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company include the accounts of TMSR and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany transactions and balances are eliminated upon consolidation.

Enterprise wide disclosure

The Company’s chief operating decision-makers (i.e. chief executive officer and her direct reports) review financial information presented on a consolidated basis, accompanied by disaggregated information about revenues by business lines (Equipment and systems revenues, trading and others revenues, and coating materials revenues) for purposes of allocating resources and evaluating financial performance. There are no segment managers who are held accountable for operations, operating results and plans for levels or components below the consolidated unit level. Based on qualitative and quantitative criteria established by Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 280, “Segment Reporting”, the Company considers itself to be operating within one reportable segment.

Use of estimates and assumptions

The preparation of unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the periods presented. Significant accounting estimates reflected in the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the useful lives of intangible assets, revenues, deferred revenues and plant and equipment, impairment of long-lived assets, collectability of receivables, inventory valuation allowance, and realization of deferred tax assets. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

Foreign currency translation and transaction

The reporting currency of the Company is the U.S. dollar. The Company in China conducts its businesses in the local currency, Renminbi (RMB), as its functional currency. Assets and liabilities are translated at the unified exchange rate as quoted by the People’s Bank of China at the end of the period. The statement of income accounts are translated at the average translation rates and the equity accounts are translated at historical rates. Translation adjustments resulting from this process are included in accumulated other comprehensive income. Transaction gains and losses that arise from exchange rate fluctuations on transactions denominated in a currency other than the functional currency are included in the results of operations as incurred.

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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Translation adjustments included in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) amounted to $(1,878,289) and $701,217 as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively. The balance sheet amounts, with the exception of shareholders’ equity at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 were translated at 6.87 RMB and 6.51 RMB to $1.00, respectively. The shareholders’ equity accounts were stated at their historical rate. The average translation rates applied to statement of income accounts for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 were 6.81 RMB and 6.67 RMB, respectively, and for nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 were 6.52 RMB and 6.80 RMB, respectively. Cash flows are also translated at average translation rates for the periods, therefore, amounts reported on the statement of cash flows will not necessarily agree with changes in the corresponding balances on the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet.

The PRC government imposes significant exchange restrictions on fund transfers out of the PRC that are not related to business operations. These restrictions have not had a material impact on the Company because it has not engaged in any significant transactions that are subject to the restrictions.

Accounts receivable, net and accounts receivable – related party, net

Accounts receivable and accounts receivable – related party include trade accounts due from customers. An allowance for doubtful accounts may be established and recorded based on management’s assessment of potential losses based on the credit history and relationships with the customers. Management reviews its receivables on a regular basis to determine if the bad debt allowance is adequate, and adjusts the allowance when necessary. Delinquent account balances are written-off against allowance for doubtful accounts after management has determined that the likelihood of collection is not probable.

After the Company evaluated all the above considerations, the Company established a policy to provide a provision of 20% for accounts receivable outstanding more than 3 months but less than 6 months, 40% for accounts receivable outstanding more than 6 months but less than 9 months, 60% for accounts receivable outstanding more than 9 months but less than 1 year, and 100% for accounts receivable outstanding more than 1 year. As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, $4,141,557 and $6,674,834 were recorded for allowance for doubtful accounts, respectively.

Inventories

Inventories are comprised of raw materials and work in progress and are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value using the first-in-first-out method in Hubei Shengrong and weighted average method in Wuhan HOST. Management reviews inventories for obsolescence and cost in excess of net realizable value at least annually and records a reserve against the inventory when the carrying value exceeds net realizable value. As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, no obsolescence and cost in excess of net realizable value were recorded for allowance.

Prepayments

Prepayments are funds deposited or advanced to outside vendors for future inventory or services purchases. As a standard practice in China, many of the Company’s vendors require a certain amount to be deposited with them as a guarantee that the Company will complete its purchases on a timely basis. This amount is refundable and bears no interest. The Company has legally binding contracts with its vendors, which require any outstanding prepayments to be returned to the Company when the contract ends.

In October of 2017, Hubei Shengrong signed a long-term cooperation agreement with a vendor as part of the plan to ensure a steady supply of inventory in 2018. In accordance with the cooperation agreement, Hubei Shengrong committed to purchase the majority of its raw materials from this vendor in 2018 and prepaid the vendor for the estimated total purchase amount in order to secure the supply source in advance.

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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Plant and equipment

Plant and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method after consideration of the estimated useful lives of the assets and estimated residual value. The estimated useful lives and residual value are as follows:

The cost and related accumulated depreciation and amortization of assets sold or otherwise retired are eliminated from the accounts and any gain or loss is included in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income. Expenditures for maintenance and repairs are charged to earnings as incurred, while additions, renewals and betterments, which are expected to extend the useful life of assets, are capitalized. The Company also re-evaluates the periods of depreciation and amortization to determine whether subsequent events and circumstances warrant revised estimates of useful lives.

Intangible assets

Intangible assets represent land use rights, patents, and software system, and they are stated at cost, less accumulated amortization. Research and development costs associated with internally developed patents are expensed when incurred. Amortization expense is recognized on the straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the assets. All land in the PRC is owned by the government; however, the government grants “land use rights.” The Company has obtained the rights to use various parcels of land and the right to use SAP B1 Cloud system. The patents have finite useful lives and are amortized using a straight-line method that reflects the estimated pattern in which the economic benefits of the intangible asset are to be consumed. The Company amortizes the cost of the land use rights, patents, and software system over their useful life using the straight-line method. The Company also re-evaluates the periods of amortization to determine whether subsequent events and circumstances warrant revised estimates of useful lives.  The estimated useful lives are as follows:

Goodwill

Goodwill represents the excess of the consideration paid of an acquisition over the fair value of the net identifiable assets of the acquired subsidiary at the date of acquisition. Goodwill is not amortized and is tested for impairment at least annually, more often when circumstances indicate impairment may have occurred. Goodwill is carried at cost less accumulated impairment losses. If impairment exists, goodwill is immediately written off to its fair value and the loss is recognized in the consolidated statements of income. Impairment losses on goodwill are not reversed.

Impairment for long-lived assets

Long-lived assets, including plant, equipment and intangible assets with finite lives are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances (such as a significant adverse change to market conditions that will impact the future use of the assets) indicate that the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable. The Company assesses the recoverability of the assets based on the undiscounted future cash flows the assets are expected to generate and recognize an impairment loss when estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset plus net proceeds expected from disposition of the asset, if any, are less than the carrying value of the asset. If an impairment is identified, the Company would reduce the carrying amount of the asset to its estimated fair value based on a discounted cash flows approach or, when available and appropriate, to comparable market values. As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, no impairment of long-lived assets was recognized.

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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Fair value measurement

The accounting standard regarding fair value of financial instruments and related fair value measurements defines financial instruments and requires disclosure of the fair value of financial instruments held by the Company. The Company considers the carrying amount of cash, notes receivable, accounts receivable, other receivables, prepayments, accounts payable, other payables and accrued liabilities, customer deposits, short term loans and taxes payable to approximate their fair values because of their short term nature.

The accounting standards define fair value, establish a three-level valuation hierarchy for disclosures of fair value measurement and enhance disclosure requirements for fair value measures. The three levels are defined as follow:

Financial instruments included in current assets and current liabilities are reported in the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets at face value or cost, which approximate fair value because of the short period of time between the origination of such instruments and their expected realization and their current market rates of interest. 

Customer deposits 

In Hubei Shengrong, customer deposits represent amounts advanced by customers on product orders. Generally, the Company requires 3% to 10% advanced deposits from the customers upon the signing of the sales contracts. At various stages of the sales contract execution, the Company generally collects certain amounts of advanced deposits from the customers based on the approximate amount of cash flows needed at each stage. Customer deposits are reduced when the related sale is recognized in accordance with the Company’s revenue recognition policy.

In Wuhan HOST, customer deposits represent amounts advanced by customers on product orders. Generally, the Company requires 95% to 100% advanced deposits from the customers upon signing of the sales contracts. A few customers with good credit history are not required to make any deposit. Customer deposits are reduced when the related sale is recognized in accordance with the Company’s revenue recognition policy.

Revenue recognition

On January 1, 2018, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-09 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (ASC 606) using the modified retrospective method for contracts that were not completed as of January 1, 2018.  This did not result in an adjustment to retained earnings upon adoption of this new guidance as the Company’s revenue, other than retainage revenues, was recognized based on the amount of consideration we expect to receive in exchange for satisfying the performance obligations. However, the impact of the Company’s retainage revenue was not material as of the date of adoption, and as a result, did not result in an adjustment.

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The core principle underlying the revenue recognition ASU is that the Company will recognize revenue to represent the transfer of goods and services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in such exchange. This will require the Company to identify contractual performance obligations and determine whether revenue should be recognized at a point in time or over time, based on when control of goods and services transfers to a customer.  The Company’s revenue streams are primarily recognized at a point in time except for the retainage revenues where the retainage periods are recognized over the retainage period, usually is a period of twelve months.

The ASU requires the use of a new five-step model to recognize revenue from customer contracts. The five-step model requires that the Company (i) identify the contract with the customer, (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract, (iii) determine the transaction price, including variable consideration to the extent that it is probable that a significant future reversal will not occur, (iv) allocate the transaction price to the respective performance obligations in the contract, and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) the Company satisfies the performance obligation. The application of the five-step model to the revenue streams compared to the prior guidance did not result in significant changes in the way the Company records its revenue. Upon adoption, the Company evaluated its revenue recognition policy for all revenue streams within the scope of the ASU under previous standards and using the five-step model under the new guidance and confirmed that there were no differences in the pattern of revenue recognition except its retainage revenues.

An entity will also be required to determine if it controls the goods or services prior to the transfer to the customer in order to determine if it should account for the arrangement as a principal or agent. Principal arrangements, where the entity controls the goods or services provided, will result in the recognition of the gross amount of consideration expected in the exchange. Agent arrangements, where the entity simply arranges but does not control the goods or services being transferred to the customer, will result in the recognition of the net amount the entity is entitled to retain in the exchange.

Revenue from equipment and systems and revenue from trading and others are recognized at the date of goods delivered and title passed to customers, when a formal arrangement exists, the price is fixed or determinable, the Company has no other significant obligations and collectability is reasonably assured. Such revenues are recognized at a point in time after all performance obligations are satisfied. In addition, training service revenues are recognized when the services are rendered and the Company has no other obligations, and collectability is reasonably assured. These revenues are recognized at a point in time.

Prior to January 1, 2018, the Company allowed its customers to retain 5% to 10% of the contract price as warranty retainage during the retainage period of 12 months to guarantee product quality. Retainage is considered as a payment term included as a part of the contract price, and was recognized as revenue upon the shipment of products. Due to nature of the retainage, the Company’s policy is to record revenue the full value of the contract without VAT, including any retainage, since the Company has experienced insignificant warranty retainage claims historically. Due to the infrequent and insignificant amount of warranty retainage claims, the ability to collect retainage was reasonably assured and was recognized at the time of shipment. On January 1, 2018, upon the adoption of ASU 2014-09 (ASC 606), revenues from product warranty retainage are recognized over the retainage period over 12 months. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018, less than 5% of our retainage revenues were recognized in our consolidated revenues and included in the Company’s equipment and systems revenues in the accompanying unaudited condensed statements of income and comprehensive income.

Payments received before all of the relevant criteria for revenue recognition are recorded as customer deposits.

As of September 30, 2018, the Company has six outstanding contracts signed with approximately $7.1 million of revenue for equipment and systems to be completed within one year.

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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The Company’s disaggregate revenue streams are summarized as follows:

Gross versus Net Revenue Reporting

Starting from July 2016, in the normal course of the Company’s trading of industrial waste materials business, the Company directly purchases the processed industrial waste materials from the Company’s suppliers under the Company’s specifications and drop ships the materials directly to the Company’s customers. The Company would inspect the materials at its customers’ site, during which inspection it temporarily assumes legal title to the materials, and after which inspection legal title is transferred to its customers. In these situations, the Company generally collects the sales proceed directly from the Company’s customers and pay for the inventory purchases to the Company’s suppliers separately. The determination of whether revenues should be reported on a gross or net basis is based on the Company’s assessment of whether it is the principal or an agent in the transaction. In determining whether the Company is the principal or an agent, the Company follows the new accounting guidance for principal-agent considerations. Since the Company is the primary obligor and is responsible for (i) fulfilling the processed industrial waste materials delivery, (ii) controlling the inventory by temporarily assume legal title to the materials after inspecting the products from our vendors before passing the materials to our customers, and (iii) bearing the back-end risk of inventory loss with respect to any product return from the Company’s customers, the Company has concluded that it is the principal in these arrangements, and therefore report revenues and cost of revenues on a gross basis.

Income taxes

The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with U.S. GAAP for income taxes. The charge for taxation is based on the results for the fiscal year as adjusted for items, which are non-assessable or disallowed. It is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date.

Deferred taxes is accounted for using the asset and liability method in respect of temporary differences arising from differences between the carrying amount of assets and liabilities in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the corresponding tax basis used in the computation of assessable tax profit. In principle, deferred tax liabilities are recognized for all taxable temporary differences. Deferred tax assets are recognized to the extent that it is probable that taxable profit will be available against which deductible temporary differences can be utilized. Deferred tax is calculated using tax rates that are expected to apply to the period when the asset is realized or the liability is settled. Deferred tax is charged or credited in the income statement, except when it is related to items credited or charged directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is also dealt with in equity. Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance when, in the opinion of management, it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. Current income taxes are provided for in accordance with the laws of the relevant taxing authorities.

An uncertain tax position is recognized as a benefit only if it is “more likely than not” that the tax position would be sustained in a tax examination, with a tax examination being presumed to occur. The amount recognized is the largest amount of tax benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized on examination. For tax positions not meeting the “more likely than not” test, no tax benefit is recorded. Penalties and interest incurred related to underpayment of income tax are classified as income tax expense in the period incurred. The Company incurred no such penalties and interest for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017. As of September 30, 2018, the Company’s PRC tax returns filed for 2015, 2016 and 2017 remain subject to examination by any applicable tax authorities.

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Earnings per share

Basic earnings per share are computed by dividing income available to common shareholders of the Company by the weighted average common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share takes into account the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other contracts to issue common shares were exercised and converted into common shares.

Recently issued accounting pronouncements

In February 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02 (ASU 2016-02), Leases (Topic 842). ASU 2016- 02 requires a lessee to record a right-of-use asset and a corresponding lease liability, initially measured at the present value of the lease payments, on the balance sheet for all leases with terms longer than 12 months, as well as the disclosure of key information about leasing arrangements. ASU 2016-02 requires recognition in the statement of operations of a single lease cost, calculated so that the cost of the lease is allocated over the lease term. ASU 2016-02 requires classification of all cash payments within operating activities in the statement of cash flows. Disclosures are required to provide the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. A modified retrospective transition approach is required for lessees for capital and operating leases existing at, or entered into after, the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented in the financial statements, with certain practical expedients available. ASU 2016-02 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early application is permitted. In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-10, Codification Improvements to Topic 842, Leases. The Company has not yet evaluated the impact of the adoption of ASU 2016-02 on the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statement presentation or disclosures.

In February 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-02, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income. The amendments in this Update affect any entity that is required to apply the provisions of Topic 220, Income Statement – Reporting Comprehensive Income, and has items of other comprehensive income for which the related tax effects are presented in other comprehensive income as required by GAAP. The amendments in this Update are effective for all entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption of the amendments in this Update is permitted, including adoption in any interim period, (1) for public business entities for reporting periods for which financial statements have not yet been issued and (2) for all other entities for reporting periods for which financial statements have not yet been made available for issuance. The amendments in this Update should be applied either in the period of adoption or retrospectively to each period (or periods) in which the effect of the change in the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is recognized. The Company does not believe the adoption of this ASU would have a material effect on the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

The Company does not believe other recently issued but not yet effective accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets, statements of income and comprehensive income and statements of cash flows.

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Note 3 – Business combination

TJ Comex BVI

On March 31, 2017, China Sunlong completed its acquisition of 100% equity interest in TJComex BVI through a share exchange to expand its business on trading certain solid wastes through TJComex BVI’s commodity exchange channels. At the closing of the share exchange on June 30, 2017, the Selling Shareholders received 5,935 shares (“Payment Shares”) of China Sunlong Common Stock valued at $926.71 per share for 100% of their equity interests in TJComex BVI, equating to 100% of all outstanding interests in TJComex BVI. Whereas, TJComex BVI owns 100% of the issued and outstanding capital stock of TJComex Hong Kong Company Limited (“TJComex HK”), a Hong Kong limited liability company, Tianjin Corro Technological Consulting Co., Ltd. (“TJComex WFOE”), a wholly foreign owned enterprise incorporated under the laws of the PRC and Tianjin Commodity Exchange Co., Ltd. (the “TJComex Tianjin”), a limited liability company incorporated under the law of the PRC. The $926.71 per share price of China Sunlong Common Stock was based on a valuation of approximately $92.7 million of China Sunlong’s enterprise value determined by an independent third-party appraiser using discounted cash flows projection model. The projected cash flows are based upon, but not limited to, assumptions such as 1) projected selling units and growth in the industry, 2) projected unit selling price, 3) projected unit cost of manufactured, 4) selling and general and administrative expenses to be in line with the growth in the industry, and 5) projected bank borrowings rate or interest rate index.

The Company’s acquisition of TJComex BVI was accounted for as a business combination in accordance with ASC 805. The Company has allocated the purchase price of TJComex BVI based upon the fair value of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed on the acquisition date. Except for cash, the Company estimated the fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date in accordance with the business combination standard issued by FASB with the following valuation methodologies with level 3 inputs: Other current assets, plant and equipment and current liabilities were valued using the cost approach. Management of the Company is responsible for determining the fair value of assets acquired, liabilities assumed and intangible assets identified as of the acquisition date and considered a number of factors including valuations from independent appraisers. Acquisition-related costs incurred for the acquisitions are not material and have been expensed as incurred in general and administrative expense.

The following table summarizes the fair value of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date, which represents the net purchase price allocation at the date of the acquisition of TJComex BVI based on a valuation performed by an independent valuation firm engaged by the Company:

Approximately $3.8 million of goodwill arising from the acquisition consists largely of synergies expected from combining the operations of the Company and TJComex BVI. None of the goodwill is expected to be deductible for income tax purposes. As of December 31, 2017, we performed an impairment testing on the goodwill and recorded an impairment loss of approximately $3.8 million on goodwill.

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, the impact of the acquisition of TJComex BVI to the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income was not material.

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On April 2, 2018, the Company disposed of its subsidiary, TJComex BVI, in consideration of (i) its minimum contribution to the Company’s  results of operation and (ii) the unsatisfactory synergy between the TJComex BVI business and the rest of the Company’s business. The Company’s decision to dispose TJComex BVI is to (i) improve the Company’s overall financial condition and results of operations, (ii) reduce the complexity of the Company’s business, (iii) focus the Company’s resources on the solid waste recycling business as well as developing environmental control business opportunities; and (iv) make it possible for the Company to pursue acquisition opportunities for more compatible business. TJComex BVI was disposed to Chuanliu Ni, a Chinese citizen who is the Chief Executive Officer and director of China Sunlong, for no consideration.

As of April 2, 2018, the net assets of TJComex BVI were $16,598 and will be recorded as a loss from disposal of subsidiary in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the period ending September 30, 2018. As TJComex operating revenue was less than 1% of the Company’s revenue and the disposal did not constitute a strategic shift that will have a major effect on the Company’s operations and financial results, the results of operations for TJComex were not reported as discontinued operations under the guidance of Accounting Standards Codification 205.

Wuhan HOST

On April 11, 2018, the Company, Shengrong WFOE and Hubei Shengrong, both of which are the Company’s indirectly owned subsidiaries (collectively “Purchasers”), entered into a Share Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Long Liao, Chunyong Zheng, Wuhan Modern Industrial Technology Research Institute, and Hubei Zhonggong Materials Group Co., Ltd. (collectively “Sellers” ) and Wuhan HOST Coating Materials Co., Ltd. (“Wuhan HOST”), a company incorporated in China engaging in the research, development, production and sale of coating materials. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Purchasers acquired all of the outstanding equity interests of Wuhan Host (the “Acquisition”). In exchange for the transfer of 100% equity interest of Wuhan Host, Purchasers shall pay a total consideration of $11.2 million (“Total Consideration”), of which $ 5.2 million or RMB equivalent shall be paid in cash (“Cash Consideration”) and $6.0 million shall be paid in shares of common stock (“Common Stock”), par value $0.0001, of TMSR (“Share Consideration”). The Parties agree the Share Consideration shall be an aggregate of 1,293,104 shares of common stock of which is based on the closing price of US$4.64 on March 27, 2018. The Share Consideration shall be issued in three equal installments, which shall be subject to lock-up of 12, 24 and 36 months, respectively. The Purchase Agreement contains representations, warranties and covenants customary for acquisitions of this type. The Acquisition closed on May 1, 2018.

The Company’s acquisition of Wuhan HOST was accounted for as a business combination in accordance with ASC 805. The Company has allocated the purchase price of Wuhan HOST based upon the fair value of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed on the acquisition date. Other current assets and current liabilities were valued using the cost approach. Management of the Company is responsible for determining the fair value of assets acquired, liabilities assumed, plant and equipment, and intangible assets identified as of the acquisition date and considered a number of factors including valuations from independent appraisers. Acquisition-related costs incurred for the acquisitions are not material and have been expensed as incurred in general and administrative expense.

The following table summarizes the fair value of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date, which represents the net purchase price allocation at the date of the acquisition of Wuhan HOST based on a valuation performed by an independent valuation firm engaged by the Company:

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Approximately $7.5 million of goodwill arising from the acquisition consists largely of synergies expected from combining the operations of the Company and Wuhan HOST. None of the goodwill is expected to be deductible for income tax purposes.

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, the impact of the acquisition of Wuhan HOST to the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income was not material.

Note 4 – Accounts receivable and accounts receivable – related party

Accounts receivable consist of the following:

Movement of allowance for doubtful accounts is as follows:

Note 5 – Inventories

Inventories consist of the following:

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Note 6 – Plant and equipment, net

Plant and equipment consist of the following:

Depreciation and amortization expense for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 amounted to $118,867 and $48,220, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 amounted to $259,390 and $115,695, respectively.

Note 7 – Intangible assets, net

Intangible assets consist of the following:

Amortization expense for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 amounted to $75,189 and $64,899, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 amounted to $220,335 and $192,702, respectively.

The estimated amortization is as follows:

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Note 8 – Related party balances and transactions

Related party balances

The Company advanced funds to the related cooperative for daily operating purposes, and those funds will be returned to the Company by the end of 2018.

The above payables represent interest free loans and advances. These loans and advances are unsecured and due on demand.

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Note 9 – Debt

Short term loan

Short term loan due to bank is as follows:

Third party loan

In April 2017, the Company obtained an unsecured loan from an unrelated third party in the amount of $144,887 (RMB 1,000,000) due on April 27, 2018 with an annual interest rate of 10%. The due date for this loan has been extended to October 27, 2018.

Interest expense for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 amounted to $40,594 and $42,715, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 amounted to $135,328 and $127,551, respectively.

Note 10 – Taxes

Income tax

United States

TMSR was organized in the state of Delaware in April 2015 and re-incorporated in the state of Nevada in June 2018. TMSR had no taxable income for United States income tax purposes for the three months ended September 30, 2018. TMSR’s U.S. net operating loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 amounted to approximately $50,000. As of September 30, 2018, TMSR’s net operating loss carry forward for United States income taxes was approximately $10,000. The net operating loss carry forwards are available to reduce future years’ taxable income through year 2038. Management believes that the realization of the benefits from these losses appears uncertain due to the Company’s operating history and continued losses in the United States. Accordingly, the Company has provided a 100% valuation allowance on the deferred tax asset to reduce the asset to zero. Management reviews this valuation allowance periodically and makes changes accordingly.

On December 22, 2017, the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (“The 2017 Tax Act”) was enacted in the United States. Under the provisions of the Act, the U.S. corporate tax rate decreased from 34% to 21%. The 2017 Tax Act imposed a global intangible low-taxed income tax (“GILTI”), which is a new tax on certain off-shore earnings at an effective rate of 10.5% for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017 (increasing to 13.125% for tax years beginning after December 31, 2025) with a partial offset for foreign tax credits. The Company determined that there are no impact of GILTI for the year ended December 31, 2018, which the Company believes that it will be imposed a minimum tax rate of 10.5% and to the extent foreign tax credits are available to reduce its US corporate tax, which may result in no additional US federal income tax being due.

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Cayman Islands

China Sunlong is incorporated in the Cayman Islands and are not subject to tax on income or capital gains under current Cayman Islands law. In addition, upon payments of dividends by China Sunlong to its shareholders, no Cayman Islands withholding tax will be imposed.

British Virgin Islands

Shengrong BVI and TJComex BVI are incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and are not subject to tax on income or capital gains under current British Virgin Islands law. In addition, upon payments of dividends by these entities to their shareholders, no British Virgin Islands withholding tax will be imposed.

Hong Kong

Shengrong HK and TJComex HK are incorporated in Hong Kong and are subject to Hong Kong Profits Tax on the taxable income as reported in its statutory financial statements adjusted in accordance with relevant Hong Kong tax laws. The applicable tax rate is 16.5% in Hong Kong. The Company did not make any provisions for Hong Kong profit tax as there were no assessable profits derived from or earned in Hong Kong since inception. Under Hong Kong tax law, Shengrong HK and TJComex HK are exempted from income tax on its foreign-derived income and there are no withholding taxes in Hong Kong on remittance of dividends.

PRC

Shengrong WFOE, Hubei Shengrong, Wuhan HOST are governed by the income tax laws of the PRC and the income tax provision in respect to operations in the PRC is calculated at the applicable tax rates on the taxable income for the periods based on existing legislation, interpretations and practices in respect thereof. Under the Enterprise Income Tax Laws of the PRC (the “EIT Laws”), Chinese enterprises are subject to income tax at a rate of 25% after appropriate tax adjustments.

Significant components of the provision for income taxes are as follows: 

Under the Income Tax Laws of the PRC, companies are subject to income tax at a rate of 25%. However, Hubei Shengrong obtained the “high-tech enterprise” tax status in 2014, which reduced its statutory income tax rate to 15% from 2014 to 2016. Hubei Shengrong renewed its “high-tech enterprise” status in December 2016, which continued to reduce its statutory income rate to 15% from 2017 to 2019. Wuhan Host also obtained the “high-tech enterprise” tax status in 2016, which reduced its statutory income tax rate to 15% from 2016 to 2019. Tax savings resulted from the reduced statutory income tax rate amounted to $103,481 and $623,883 for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and amounted to $269,284 and $1,934,788 for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively.

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Deferred tax assets

Bad debt allowances must be approved by the Chinese tax authority prior to being deducted as an expense item on the tax return.

Significant components of deferred tax assets were as follows:

* Represents TJ Comex net operating losses carried forward was disposed on April 2, 2018.

Value added tax

Enterprises or individuals who sell commodities, engage in repair and maintenance or import and export goods in the PRC are subject to a value added tax in accordance with PRC laws. The value added tax (“VAT”) standard rates are 6% to 17% of the gross sales price and changed to 6% to 16% of gross sales starting in May 2018. A credit is available whereby VAT paid on the purchases of semi-finished products or raw materials used in the production of the Company’s finished products can be used to offset the VAT due on sales of the finished products and services.

Taxes payable consisted of the following:

Note 11 – Concentration of risk

Credit risk

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to significant concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and accounts receivable. As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, no cash were deposited with various financial institutions located in the U.S. As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, $866,621 and $457,126 and were deposited with various financial institutions located in the PRC, respectively. As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, $7,809 and $3,186 were deposited with one financial institution located in Hong Kong, respectively. While management believes that these financial institutions are of high credit quality, it also continually monitors their credit worthiness.

Accounts receivable are typically unsecured and derived from revenue earned from customers, thereby exposed to credit risk. The risk is mitigated by the Company’s assessment of its customers’ creditworthiness and its ongoing monitoring of outstanding balances.

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Customer and vendor concentration risk

For the three months ended September 30, 2018, three customers accounted for 20.6%, 18.8% and 10.6% of the Company’s revenues. For the three months ended September 30, 2017, four customers accounted for 29.8%, 29.8%, 26.9% and 13.4% of the Company’s revenues.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2018, two customers accounted for 40.2% and 25.1% of the Company’s revenues. For the nine months ended September 30, 2017, four customers accounted for 25.0%, 24.7%, 14.1% and 14.1% of the Company’s revenues.

As of September 30, 2018, two customers accounted for 49.9% and 32.9% of the Company’s accounts receivable and accounts receivable – related party. As of December 31, 2017, two customers, who are related to each other under common management and ownership, accounted for 45.6% and 43.9% of the Company’s accounts receivable.

For the three months ended September 30, 2018, one supplier accounted for 70.1% of the Company’s total purchases. For the three months ended September 30, 2017, three suppliers accounted for 36.3%, 33.8% and 28.7% of the Company’s total purchases, respectively.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2018, one supplier accounted for 67.9% of the Company’s total purchases. For the nine months ended September 30, 2017, three suppliers accounted for 39.8%, 33.3% and 25.8% of the Company’s total purchases, respectively.

As of September 30, 2018, three suppliers accounted for 35.6%, 33.3% and 30.6% of the Company’s total prepayments; and four suppliers accounted for 21.4%, 17.8%, 16.0% and 10.4% of the Company’s total accounts payable. As of December 31, 2017, three suppliers accounted for 41.2%, 35.9% and 22.8% of the Company’s prepayments; and two suppliers accounted for 40.0% and 29.1% of the Company’s total accounts payable.

Note 12 – Equity

Restricted net assets

The Company’s ability to pay dividends is primarily dependent on the Company receiving distributions of funds from its subsidiaries. Relevant PRC statutory laws and regulations permit payments of dividends by Shengrong WFOE only out of its retained earnings, if any, as determined in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations. The results of operations reflected in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP differ from those reflected in the statutory financial statements of Shengrong WFOE.

Shengrong WFOE, Hubei Shengrong, Wuhan HOST are required to set aside at least 10% of their after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund certain statutory reserve funds until such reserve funds reach 50% of its registered capital. In addition, Shengrong WFOE may allocate a portion of its after-tax profits based on PRC accounting standards to enterprise expansion fund and staff bonus and welfare fund at its discretion. Hubei Shengrong and Wuhan HOST may allocate a portion of its after-tax profits based on PRC accounting standards to a discretionary surplus fund at its discretion. The statutory reserve funds and the discretionary funds are not distributable as cash dividends. Remittance of dividends by a wholly foreign-owned company out of China is subject to examination by the banks designated by State Administration of Foreign Exchange.

As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, Shengrong WFOE (through Hubei Shengrong and Wuhan HOST) attributed $2,259,332 and $2,137,815 of retained earnings for their statutory reserves, respectively.

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As a result of the foregoing restrictions, Shengrong WFOE are restricted in their ability to transfer their net assets to the Company. Foreign exchange and other regulation in the PRC may further restrict Shengrong WFOE from transferring funds to China Sunlong in the form of dividends, loans and advances. As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, amounts restricted are the net assets of Shengrong WFOE, which amounted to $28,874,881 and $27,800,814, respectively.

Stock split

On June 1, 2018, the Company’s shareholder approved a 2 for 1 stock split of the Company’s common stock at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The stock split was effected on June 20, 2018, pursuant to the completion of the reincorporation from Delaware to Nevada. All shares and per share amounts used herein and in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been retroactively restated to reflect the stock split.

Common stock

On June 23, 2018, the Company issued an aggregate of 26,693 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, to certain non-U.S. purchasers at a purchase price of $5.00 per share for an aggregate offering price of $133,335 pursuant to certain securities purchase agreement dated April 20, 2018 and June 22, 2018.  The issuances were pursuant to the exemption from registration under Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Warrants and options

On July 29, 2015, the Company sold 10,000,000 units at a purchase price of $5.00 per unit (“Public Units”) in its initial public offering. Each Public Unit consists of one share of the Company’s common stock, $0.0001 par value, and one warrant. Each warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one-half of one share of common stock at an exercise price of $2.88 per half share ($5.75 per whole share). Warrants may be exercised only for a whole number of shares of common stock. No fractional shares will be issued upon exercise of the warrants. The warrants will become exercisable on 30 days after the consummation of its initial Business Combination with China Sunlong on February 6, 2018. The warrants will expire February 5, 2023. The warrants will be redeemable by the Company at a price of $0.01 per warrant upon 30 days prior written notice after the warrants become exercisable, only in the event that the last sale price of the common stock equals or exceeds $12.00 per share for any 20 trading days within a 30-trading day period ending on the third business day prior to the date on which notice of redemption is given.

The sponsor of the Company purchased, simultaneously with the closing of the Public Offering on July 29, 2015, 500,000 units at $5.00 per unit in a private placement for an aggregate price of $2,500,000. Each unit purchased is substantially identical to the units sold in the Public Offering.

The Company sold to the underwriter (and/or its designees), for $100, as additional compensation, an option to purchase up to a total of 800,000 units exercisable at $5.00 per unit (or an aggregate exercise price of $4,000,000) upon the closing of the Public Offering. Since the option is not exercisable until the earliest on the closing the initial Business Combination, the option will effectively represent the right to purchase up to 800,000 shares of common stock and 800,000 warrants to purchase 400,000 shares at $5.75 per full share for an aggregate maximum amount of $6,300,000. The units issuable upon exercise of this option are identical to those issued in the Public Offering.

In July 2016, the board of directors of the Company appointed two new directors. In August 2016, the sponsor of the Company granted an option to each of the two new directors to acquire 12,000 shares of common stock at a price of $4.90 per share vested immediately and exercisable commencing six months after closing of the initial Business Combination and expiring five years from the closing of the initial Business Combination.

The aforementioned warrants and options are deemed to be effective on February 6, 2018, the date of the consummation of its initial business combination with China Sunlong, as the Company was deemed to be the accounting acquiree in the transaction and the transaction was treated as a recapitalization of China Sunlong.

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The summary of warrant activity is as follows:

The summary of option activity is as follows:

Note 13 – Commitments and contingencies

Contingencies
 

The Company may be subject to certain legal proceedings, claims and disputes that arise in the ordinary course of business. Although the outcomes of these legal proceedings cannot be predicted, the Company does not believe these actions, in the aggregate, will have a material adverse impact on its financial position, results of operations or liquidity.

Lease commitments

The Company has entered into non-cancellable operating lease agreements for one office, one factory space and one dormitory space for its employees. The office lease is expiring in December 2021 with a monthly rental rate of approximately $4,900. The factory lease is expiring in December 2018 with a monthly rental rate of approximately $5,800. The dormitory lease expired in July 2017, and was extended to December 2019, with a monthly rental rate of approximately $390. The office lease payments for the lease expiring in December 2021 will be paid over three years beginning 2018.

The Company’s commitments for minimum lease payment under these operating leases as of September 30, 2018 are as follow:

Rent expense for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 were $24,395 and $44,399, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 were $117,723 and $135,444, respectively.

ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

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FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this proxy statement. The following discussion contains forward-looking statements that reflect the Company’s future plans, estimates, beliefs and expected performance. The forward-looking statements are dependent upon events, risks and uncertainties that may be outside the Company’s control. The Company’s actual results could differ materially from those discussed in these forward-looking statements. Please read “Risk Factors” and “Forward-Looking Statements.” In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events discussed may not occur.

Overview

TMSR Holding Company Limited (the “Company” or “TMSR”), formerly known as JM Global Holding Company (“JM Global”), was a blank check company incorporated in Delaware on April 10, 2015. The Company was formed for the purpose of acquiring, through a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, exchangeable share transaction or other similar business transaction, one or more operating businesses or assets (“Business Combination”). On June 20, 2018, TMSR consummated the reincorporation. As a result, the Company changed its state of incorporation from Delaware to Nevada, and implemented a 2-for-1 forward stock split of the Company’s common stock (the “Forward Split). The reincorporation and Forward Split were approved by shareholders holding the majority of the outstanding shares of common stock of TMSR on June 1, 2018 at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

China Sunlong Environmental Technology Inc. (“China Sunlong”) is a holding company incorporated on August 31, 2015, under the laws of the Cayman Islands. China Sunlong has no substantive operations other than holding all of the outstanding share capital of Shengrong Environmental Protection Holding Company Limited (“Shengrong BVI”). Shengrong BVI, a business company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands with limited liability on June 30, 2015, is a holding company for Hong Kong Shengrong Environmental Technology Limited, a Hong Kong registered company (“Shengrong HK”) incorporated on September 25, 2015, which in turn owns 100% of the issued and outstanding equity interests in Shengrong Environmental Protection Technology (Wuhan) Co., Ltd., a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise registered in Hubei, China (“Shengrong WFOE”), which in turn, since March 2016, has owned 100% of the issued and outstanding equity interests in Hubei Shengrong Environmental Protection Energy-Saving Science and Technology Co. Ltd., a registered company in Hubei, China (“Hubei Shengrong”). We refer to Shengrong BVI and its consolidated subsidiaries collectively as “China Sunlong” or the “Company”.

Hubei Shengrong was formed in 2009. Since inception, the company has been focused on the research, development, production and sale of an array of solid waste recycling systems for the mining and industrial sectors in the PRC. Hubei Shengrong’s waste recycling systems provide end users in these markets with a cleaner alternative to traditional waste disposal by significantly reducing solid waste disposed into the environment, and enables end users to extract value from valuable metals and other industrial waste materials in waste disposals.

On February 6, 2018, China Sunlong Environmental Technology Inc. (“China Sunlong”) consummated the business combination (the “Business Combination”) with JM Global pursuant to a Share Exchange Agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”) dated as August 28, 2017 by and among (i) JM Global; (ii) Zhong Hui Holding Limited; (iii) China Sunlong; (iv) each of the shareholders of China Sunlong named on Annex I of the Share Exchange Agreement (the “Sellers”); and (v) Chuanliu Ni, a Chinese citizen who was the Chief Executive Officer and director of China Sunlong, in the capacity as the representative for the Sellers. Pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement, JM Global acquired from the Sellers all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of China Sunlong in exchange for 8,995,428 newly-issued shares of common stock of JM Global to the Sellers. The 899,544 shares of these newly-issued shares would be held in escrow for 18 months from the closing date of the Business Combination as a security for China Sunlong and the Sellers' indemnification obligations under the Share Exchange Agreement. This transaction was accounted for as a “reverse merger” and recapitalization at the date of the consummation of the transaction since the shareholders of China Sunlong owned the majority of the outstanding shares of JM Global immediately following the completion of the transaction and JM Global’s operations became the operations of China Sunlong following the transaction. Accordingly, China Sunlong was deemed to be the accounting acquirer in the transaction and the transaction was treated as a recapitalization of China Sunlong.

On October 10, 2017, Hubei Shengrong established a fully owned subsidiary, Fujian Shengrong Environmental Protection Energy-Saving Science and Technology Ltd. (“Fujian Shengrong”), with registered capital of USD 1,518,120 (RMB 10,000,000), to be fully funded by October 10, 2019. Prior to the Company executing the ownership transfer and capital contribution agreement (“Agreement”) on May 30, 2018, Fujian Shengrong had no operations prior to May 30, 2018. Fujian Shengrong was a shell company. On May 30, 2018, Hubei Shengrong signed an Agreement with two unrelated entities for which Hubei Shengrong transfered 80% ownership interest in Fujian Shengrong to these two entities. In return, these two entities were required to contribute cash of approximately USD 5.0 million (RMB 32.0 million) into Fujian Shengrong to acquire the 80% ownership interest and Hubei Shengrong was required to provide approximately USD 1.3 million (RMB 8.0 million) worth of technology services for the Company as a contribution, or 20% of investment, for a total of USD 6.3 million (RMB 40.0 million). As a result, the total investment was changed to 20%, the Company accounted for the investment in Fujian Shengrong using the cost method. Due to that Hubei Shengrong did not provide any cash contribution or technology services to Fujian Shengrong, the investment balance under the cost method investment on September 30, 2018 was $0.

On April 2, 2018, the Company disposed of its subsidiary, TJComex International Group Corporation (“TJComex BVI”), a British Virgin Islands corporation, in consideration of (i) its minimum contribution to the Company’s results of operation, and (ii) the unsatisfactory synergy between the TJComex BVI business and the rest of the Company’s business. The Company’s made the decision to dispose TJComex BVI to (i) improve the Company’s overall financial condition and results of operations, (ii) reduce the complexity of the Company’s business, (iii) focus the Company’s resources on the solid waste recycling business as well as developing environmental control business opportunities; and (iv) make it possible for the Company to pursue acquisition opportunities for more compatible business. TJComex BVI was transfered to Chuanliu Ni, a Chinese citizen who is the director of China Sunlong. As of April 2, 2018, the net assets of TJComex BVI were valued at $16,598, which was recorded as a loss from the disposal of a subsidiary in the September 30, 2018 unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. As TJComex BVI’s operating revenue was less than 1% of the Company’s revenue and the disposal did not constitute a strategic shift that would have a major effect on the Company’s operations and financial results, the results of operations for TJComex BVI were not reported as discontinued operations under the guidance of Accounting Standards Codification 205.

On April 11, 2018, the Company, Shengrong WFOE and Hubei Shengrong, both of which are the Company’s indirectly owned subsidiaries (collectively “Purchasers”), entered into a Share Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Long Liao, Chunyong Zheng, Wuhan Modern Industrial Technology Research Institute, and Hubei Zhonggong Materials Group Co., Ltd. (collectively “Sellers” ) and Wuhan HOST Coating Materials Co., Ltd. (“Wuhan HOST”), a company incorporated in China engaged in the research and development, production and sale of coating materials. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Purchasers acquired all of the outstanding equity interests of Wuhan Host (the “Acquisition”). In exchange for the transfer of 100% equity interest of Wuhan Host, Purchasers paid a total consideration of $11.2 million (“Total Consideration”), of which $ 5.2 million or RMB equivalent was paid in cash (“Cash Consideration”) and $6.0 million was paid in shares of common stock (“Common Stock”), par value $0.0001, of TMSR (“Share Consideration”). The Parties agreed the Share Consideration was1,293,104 shares of common stock based on the closing price of US$4.64 on March 27, 2018. The Share Consideration would be issued in three equal installments, and subject to lock-ups of 12, 24 and 36 months, respectively. The acquisition was closed on May 1, 2018, since when the Company’s business activities added research, development, production and sale of coating materials.

On August 16, 2018, the Company, Shengrong WFOE and Hubei Shengrong, both of which are the Company’s indirectly owned subsidiaries (collectively “Purchasers”), and Long Liao, Chunyong Zheng, Wuhan Modern Industrial Technology Research Institute, and Hubei Zhonggong Materials Group Co., Ltd. and Wuhan HOST Coating Materials Co., Ltd. (“Wuhan HOST”) (collectively “Sellers” ), entered into a supplement agreement (“Supplement Agreement”), which modified the terms of consideration set forth in the Share Purchase Agreement entered between Purchasers and Sellers on April 11, 2018. Pursuant to the Supplement Agreement, in exchange for the transfer of 100% equity interest of Wuhan Host, Purchasers shall pay a total consideration of $11.2 million (“Total Consideration”), of which $ 6.5 million or RMB equivalent shall be paid in cash (“Cash Consideration”) and $4.7 million shall be paid in shares of common stock (“Common Stock”), par value $0.0001, of TMSR (“Share Consideration”). In the Supplement Agreement, both Purchasers and Sellers also agreed to delete the section 3.3 of the Share Purchase Agreement,  a section that stipulates the Share Consideration shall be issued in three equal installments.

Key Factors that Affect Operating Results

Management has observed the trends and uncertainties of government efforts to control the industrial solid wastes discharge, which we believe may have a direct impact on our operations in the near future.

Although the PRC economy has grown in recent years, the pace of growth has slowed, and even that rate of growth may not continue. According to the National Bureau of Statistics in China (“NBS”), the annual rate of growth in the PRC declined from 7.7% in 2013 to 7.4% in 2014, 6.9% in 2015 and 6.7% in 2016 and increased back to 6.9% in 2017. The expected growth rate in 2018 will be 6.5%. A further slowdown in overall economic growth, an economic downturn or recession or other adverse economic developments in the PRC may materially reduce the demand for the combined company’s direct lending service and may have a materially adverse effect on its business.

Our operating subsidiaries are incorporated, and our operations and assets are primarily located, in China. Accordingly, our results of operations, financial condition and prospects are affected by China’s economic and regulation conditions in the following factors: (a) an economic downturn in China or any regional market in China; (b) economic policies and initiatives undertaken by the Chinese government; (c) changes in the Chinese or regional business or regulatory environment affecting our customers; and (e) Changes in the Chinese government policy on industrial solid waste. Unfavorable changes could affect demand for services that we provide and could materially and adversely affect the results of operations. Although the Company has generally benefited from China’s economic growth and the policies to encourage the improvement of reducing of solid waste discharge, the Company is also affected by the complexity, uncertainties and changes in the Chinese economic conditions and regulations governing the mining industry.

Our operations are largely affected by the testing result of installed solid waste recycling systems and equipment. If an installed solid waste recycling system or equipment cannot meet the acceptance standards stated on the sales contract, which usually include the outlook of the systems and equipment, the recycled rate of low magnetic catalysts and the physical and chemical index of low magnetic catalysts, then we need to adjust the systems and equipment until their performance meets the acceptance standards. Only after the testing results meet the standards, the products can be considered delivered and title passed to customers, and we can recognize sales.

Our operations are also affected by our estimate of the collectability of accounts receivables and by our annual impairment test on goodwill, of which details are explained below.

Results of Operations

Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 vs. September 30, 2017

Revenues

The Company’s revenue consists of solid waste recycling systems and equipment revenues, trading revenues and coating materials revenues. Total revenues decreased by approximately $10.4 million, or approximately 77.3%, to approximately $3.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018, compared to approximately $13.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017. The overall decrease in total revenue was attributable to the decreased sales of solid waste recycling systems and equipment and sales of trading industrial waste materials and was offset by the increased sales of coating materials after the acquisition of Wuhan HOST.

Revenues of solid waste recycling systems and equipment decreased by approximately $4.6 million, or approximately 90.1%, to approximately $0.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018, compared to approximately $5.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017. The decrease in revenues was primarily attributable to the decrease of solid waste recycling equipment on numbers of units sold. The acceptance inspections of some solid waste recycling system and equipment orders scheduled to be in the three months ended September 30, 2018 were delayed due to severe storm weather condition throughout China which effect its customers’ job site condition, such as flooding effect. As a result, its customers’ needs to postpone the acceptance of their orders and our revenues of solid waste recycling systems and equipment decreased accordingly. Our revenues from solid waste recycling systems and equipment on numbers of units sold and built and its average selling price are summarized as follows:

During the three months ended September 30, 2018, we sold 1 unit of solid waste recycling equipment with a selling price of $506,988 as compared to 9 units sold with an average selling price of $570,069 during the three months ended September 30, 2017. The decrease in units sold of 8 units or 88.9% during the three months ended September 30, 2018 as compared to the same period in 2017 were mainly due to the fact that we had less solid waste recycling equipment accepted by customers for the three months ended September 30, 2018 as the aforementioned reason as discussed above. The decrease in average unit price of $63,081 or 11.1% during the three months ended September 30, 2018 as compared to the same period in 2017 was due to the fact that our petroleum catalyst separation equipment, that we sold in the third quarter of 2018, had a lower selling price than other solid waste recycling equipment that we sold in the third quarter of 2017, such as Copper tailings separation equipment and Titanium dioxide separation equipment, which lowered the average selling price. The decrease was also partly due to the 2.2% depreciation of Chinse Reminbi (“RMB”) against the U.S. Dollar .

Revenues of trading of industrial waste materials and other general merchandises decreased by approximately $7.4 million or 87.8%, to approximately $1.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018, compared to approximately $8.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017. The decrease in revenues was attributable to the decreased amount of industrial waste materials traded during the three months ended September 30, 2018 as compared to the same period in 2017. Our revenues from trading of industrial waste materials and others revenues are summarized as follows:

Our total sold quantity of each kind of industrial waste materials and their average selling price are summarized as follows:

Starting from July 2016, we commenced our industrial waste materials trading business, pursuant to which we directly order the processed industrial waste materials from our suppliers of industrial waste materials, then under our specifications per contract, drop ship the processed industrial waste materials directly to our customers. We inspect the materials at our industrial waste materials customers’ site, during which inspection we temporarily assume legal title to the materials, and after which inspection legal title is transferred to the customers. In these situations, we generally collect the sales proceed directly from our customers and pay for the inventory purchases to our suppliers separately.

We started our trading of industrial waste materials business mainly due to the opportunity that existed in the marketplace, as the end users of our solid waste recycling equipment, also referred to as our equipment end users, while in the process of using our solid waste recycling equipment to clean and extract waste from mines and job sites, may also extract and separate certain valuable metals from other industrial waste materials. We recognize that there is a market for these metals and waste materials and as a result, we connect our equipment end users who sell the byproduct of materials they produce to our industrial waste materials suppliers who have the capability of processing such solid waste materials into powder and directly ship such products to our industrial waste materials customers. This type of trading business is related to our solid waste recycling systems and equipment business because the end users of our solid waste recycling equipment only use our equipment to extract the valuable metals and chemicals for their needs. These end users do not need the residual materials generated as a byproduct of extraction and considered to be industrial waste materials. As a result, we believe our industrial waste material trading business is sustainable as long as our solid waste recycling system and equipment business is sustainable. We strongly believe our solid waste recycling system and equipment business is sustainable because of upcoming favorable energy conservation and emission reduction target-setting policies mandated by the PRC government. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this is a new line of our business that is still in the development stage.

Approximately two to three weeks prior to shipment, our suppliers of industrial waste materials will physically process the industrial waste materials at the locations of the equipment end users. These end users are located in different provinces of China, such as Hubei, Sichuan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. After our industrial waste material suppliers have processed the industrial waste materials per our specifications, they will drop ship the materials by truck, which takes approximately 1 to 5 days, directly to our industrial waste materials customers in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, for our inspection before being inspected and accepted by our customers.

During the three months ended September 30, 2018, the decrease of revenues from trading industrial waste materials was due to the fact that we only generated revenues from trading an aggregate of 900 tons of Acid Hydrolysis Titanium Dioxide, Petroleum FCC Catalyst, Ilmenite Tailings and Copper Smelting Tailings compared to an aggregate of 7,500 tons during the same period in 2017. Our trading of industrial waste materials are dependent on the progress of our recycling equipment end users and when they are able to sell those industrial waste materials to our suppliers to process the waste. During the three months ended September 30, 2018, we had less resources to trade the aforementioned industrial waste materials as compared to the same period in 2017 as the enterprises who has the resources of the industrial waste materials were closed for production during the three months ended September 30, 2018 due to inspection from the environment group of the Chinese government until the enterprises were able to pass the environmental inspection, which reduced the resource for our trading of industrial waste materials.

We do not believe that we have any competitors to compete with us in the trading of industrial waste materials as their equipment are not as sophisticated as our equipment to extract value from valuable metals and other industrial waste materials. As a result, we do not believe that other potential competitors will have the source of obtaining the industrial waste materials to compete in this business.

Our customers who order the industrial waste materials from us are able to manufacture from these processed industrial waste materials and turned them into variety of materials used for decoration, such as plastic wood, interior wall decorative panels and stone plastic limitation wood flooring. The decoration materials made from these processed industrial waste materials are much cheaper than using other environmental friendly raw materials, and generally have better qualities. We evaluate prices of similar raw materials for construction and then set a price with these two customers. We believe our customers might be able to obtain government support and grant for using these industrial waste materials products.

In addition, environment risk does not appears to be applied to us since we are assisting the end users of our solid waste recycling equipment to reduce their solid waste discharge and we did not create any environment effect or risk.

Cost of Revenues

The Company’s cost of revenues consists of cost of solid waste recycling systems and equipment revenues, cost of trading revenues, and cost of coating materials. Total cost of revenues decreased by approximately $5.4 million, or approximately 72.5% to approximately $2.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018, compared to approximately $7.4 million for the same period in 2017. Our total cost of revenues decreased, which was in line with the decrease of revenues.

Cost of revenues of solid waste recycling systems and equipment decreased by approximately $1.5 million, or approximately 89.8% to approximately $0.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018, compared to approximately $1.7 million for the same period in 2017. The decrease in cost of revenues of solid waste recycling systems and equipment was in line with the decrease of sales volume of solid waste recycling equipment.

Cost of revenues of trading of industrial waste materials and others decreased by approximately $5.0 million or 87.8%, to approximately $0.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018, compared to $5.7 million for the same period in 2017. The decrease was in line with the decrease in revenues of trading of industrial waste materials and other general merchandises. Our cost of revenues from trading of industrial waste materials and others revenues are summarized as follows:

Our total sold quantity of each kind of industrial waste materials and their average purchasing price are summarized as follows:

Gross Profit

The Company’s gross profit decreased by approximately $5.1 million, or 83.2%, to approximately $1.0 million during the three months ended September 30, 2018, from approximately $6.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017. For the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, the Company’s gross margin was approximately 33.4% and 44.9%, respectively. The decrease in gross margin was primarily due to the newly added business of producing and selling coating materials after our acquisition of Wuhan HOST in May 2018. The gross margin of coating materials was approximately 24.3% for the three months ended September 30, 2018. The decrease was also partly due to the depreciation of Chinse Reminbi (“RMB”) against U.S. Dollar of 2.2%. The decrease in gross margin was also due to more of the lower profit margin industrial waste materials of Ilmenite Tailing and Copper Smelting Tailings being sold during the three months September 30, 2018 as compared to more of the higher profit margin industrial waste materials of Acid Hydrolysis Titanium and Petroleum FCC Catalyst being sold during the three months ended September 30, 2017. As a result, the gross margin percentage for our trading operations and others decreased from 44.9% for the three months ended June 30, 2017 to 33.4% for the three months ended September 30, 2018.

Operating Expenses (Income)

The Company’s operating expenses (income) include selling, general and administrative (“SG&A”) expenses and recovery of doubtful accounts. SG&A expenses decreased by approximately $0.3 million, by approximately 56.5%, from approximately $0.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017 to $0.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018. The decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses was primarily due to the decrease of professional fees of $0.4 million, such as audit, legal, consulting, public relation, and other professional fees in relation to the business combination between JM Global and China Sunlong in February 2018, acquisition of Wuhan HOST audit, accounting and legal advisory services, as these services are completed prior to the three months ended September 30, 2018. The decrease was offset by the increase of $0.1 million SG&A expenses incurred in Wuhan HOST, our new acquired subsidiary in May 2018.

We provided a provision for doubtful accounts of approximately $0.5 million during the three months ended September 30, 2018 as compared to approximately $2.9 million during the three months ended September 30, 2017. At the beginning of 2017, we were trying to expand our trading of industrial waste materials business and gaining market shares by granting a 30 days credit term of the revenue to our customers. We did not collect our accounts receivable per credit term as expected. As a result, we started to assess the potential losses and provide provision of allowances on the accounts receivable during the three months ended September 30, 2017.

Income from Operations

As a result of the foregoing, income from operations for the three months ended September 30, 2018 was approximately $0.3 million, a decrease of approximately $2.3 million, or approximately 88.1%, from approximately $2.6 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017. As a percentage of total revenues, income from operations decreased to approximately 10.3% during the three months ended September 30, 2018 from approximately 19.6% during the same period in 2017. The decrease was mostly driven by the decrease of revenues from the higher profit margin products, solid waste recycling equipment and industrial waste materials and the increase of revenues from the lower profit margin products, coating materials as discussed above.

Other Income (Expense)

The Company’s other income (expense) consists of interest income, interest expense and other income (expense), net. The Company’s other expense was approximately $18,000 during the three months ended September 30, 2018, an decrease of approximately $40,000, or approximately 69.4%, as compared to other expenses of approximately $58,000 during the same period in 2017. The decrease was mainly attributable to the approximately $24,000 currency exchange gain and approximately $14,000 less non-operating expenses during the three months ended September 30, 2018.

Provision for Income Taxes

The Company’s provision for income tax was approximately $57,000 during the three months ended September 30, 2018, compared to approximately $0.5 million for the same period in 2017. Under the Income Tax Laws of the PRC, companies are generally subject to income tax at a rate of 25%. However, the Company’s 100% subsidiary, Hubei Shengrong, obtained the “high-tech enterprise” tax status in 2014, which reduced its statutory income tax rate to 15%. Hubei Shengrong renewed its “high-tech enterprise” status in December 2016, which continued to reduce its statutory income rate to 15% from 2017 to 2019. The decrease in provision for income taxes is in line with the decrease in income before income taxes. However, we have incurred approximately $0.1 million of non-deductible expenses for income tax purpose, as a result the effective tax rate increased from 18.4% for the three months ended September 30, 2017 to 19.2% for the three months ended September 30, 2018.

Net Income

As a result of the foregoing, net income decreased by approximately $1.9 million, or 88.6%, to approximately $0.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018, from approximately $2.1 million for the same period in 2017.

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 vs. September 30, 2017

Revenues

The Company’s revenue consists of solid waste recycling systems and equipment revenues, trading revenues and coating materials revenues. Total revenues decreased by approximately $18.4 million, or approximately 48.1%, to approximately $19.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, compared to approximately $38.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. The overall decrease in total revenue was attributable to the decreased sales of solid waste recycling systems and equipment and trading industrial waste materials and offset by the increased sales of coating materials after the acquisition of Wuhan HOST.

Revenues of solid waste recycling systems and equipment decreased by approximately $3.0 million, or approximately 16.2%, to approximately $15.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, compared to approximately $18.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. The decrease in revenues was primarily attributable to the decrease of solid waste recycling equipment orders. We have allocated our resources to the solid waste recycling system orders during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 but the systems take a longer time to build than a solid waste equipment. As a result, our revenues of solid waste recycling systems and equipment decreased accordingly. Our revenues from solid waste recycling systems and equipment on numbers of units sold and built and its average selling price are summarized as follows:

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, we sold 7 units of solid waste recycling equipment with an average selling price of $525,035 per unit as compared to 32 units sold with an average selling price of $573,908 during the nine months ended September 30, 2017. The decrease in units sold of 25 units or 78.1% during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 as compared to the same period in 2017 were mainly due to our allocations of our resource to the solid waste recycling system infrastructure and the delayed acceptance of some solid waste recycling equipment. We did not have any solid waste recycling infrastructure systems accepted by customers for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. The decrease in average unit price of $48,873 or 8.5% during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 as compared to the same period in 2017 was due to the fact that our petroleum catalyst separation equipment, that we sold in the nine months ended September 30, 2018, had a lower selling price than other solid waste recycling equipment that we sold in the nine months ended September 30, 2017, such as Copper tailings separation equipment and Titanium dioxide separation equipment, which lowered the average selling price. The decrease was partly offset by the appreciation of Chinse Reminbi (“RMB”) against U.S. Dollar of 4.2%.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, we completed the sales of 3 units of solid waste recycling infrastructure systems with an average selling price of $3,906,128 per unit. We did not recognize any solid waste recycling infrastructure systems revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 because we allocated our resources to the manufacture solid waste recycling system infrastructure for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 as compared to the same period in 2017 where we allocated our resources to manufacture solid waste recycling equipment.

Revenues of trading of industrial waste materials and other general merchandises decreased by approximately $18.1 million or 90.7%, to approximately $1.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, compared to approximately $20.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. The decrease in revenues was attributable to the decreased amount of industrial waste materials traded during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 as compared to the same period in 2017. Our revenues from trading of industrial waste materials and others revenues are summarized as follows:

Our total sold quantity of each kind of industrial waste materials and their average selling price are summarized as follows:

Starting from July 2016, we commenced our industrial waste materials trading business, pursuant to which we directly order the processed industrial waste materials from our suppliers of industrial waste materials, then under our specifications per contract, drop ship the processed industrial waste materials directly to our customers. We inspect the materials at our industrial waste materials customers’ site, during which inspection we temporarily assume legal title to the materials, and after which inspection legal title is transferred to the customers. In these situations, we generally collect the sales proceed directly from our customers and pay for the inventory purchases to our suppliers separately.

We started our trading of industrial waste materials business mainly due to the opportunity that existed in the marketplace, as the end users of our solid waste recycling equipment, also referred to as our equipment end users, while in the process of using our solid waste recycling equipment to clean and extract waste from mines and job sites, may also extract and separate certain valuable metals from other industrial waste materials. We recognize that there is a market for these metals and waste materials and as a result, we connect our equipment end users who sell the byproduct of materials they produce to our industrial waste materials suppliers who have the capability of processing such solid waste materials into powder and directly ship such products to our industrial waste materials customers. This type of trading business is related to our solid waste recycling systems and equipment business because the end users of our solid waste recycling equipment only use our equipment to extract the valuable metals and chemicals for their needs. These end users do not need the residual materials generated as a byproduct of extraction and considered to be industrial waste materials. As a result, we believe our industrial waste material trading business is sustainable as long as our solid waste recycling system and equipment business is sustainable. We strongly believe our solid waste recycling system and equipment business is sustainable because of upcoming favorable energy conservation and emission reduction target-setting policies mandated by the PRC government. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this is a new line of our business that is still in the development stage.

Approximately two to three weeks prior to shipment, our suppliers of industrial waste materials will physically process the industrial waste materials at the locations of the equipment end users. These end users are located in different provinces of China, such as Hubei, Sichuan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. After our industrial waste material suppliers have processed the industrial waste materials per our specifications, they will drop ship the materials by truck, which takes approximately 1 to 5 days, directly to our industrial waste materials customers in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, for our inspection before being inspected and accepted by our customers.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the decrease of revenues from trading industrial waste materials was due to the fact that we only generated revenues from trading an aggregate of 1,700 tons of Acid Hydrolysis Titanium Dioxide, Petroleum FCC Catalyst, Ilmenite Tailings and Copper Smelting Tailings as compared to an aggregate of 17,060 tons during the same period in 2017. Our trading of industrial waste materials are dependent on the progress of our recycling equipment end users and when they are able to sell those industrial waste materials to our suppliers to process the waste. During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, we had less resources to trade the aforementioned industrial waste materials as compared to the same period in 2017 as the enterprises who has the resources of the industrial waste materials were closed for production during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 due to inspection from the environment group of the Chinese government until the enterprises were able to pass the environmental inspection, which reduced the resource for our trading of industrial waste materials.

We do not believe that we have any competitors to compete with us in the trading of industrial waste materials as their equipment are not as sophisticated as our equipment to extract value from valuable metals and other industrial waste materials. As a result, we do not believe that other potential competitors will have the source of obtaining the industrial waste materials to compete in this business.

Our customers who order the industrial waste materials from us are able to manufacture from these processed industrial waste materials and turned them into variety of materials used for decoration, such as plastic wood, interior wall decorative panels and stone plastic imitation wood flooring. The decoration materials made from these processed industrial waste materials are much cheaper than using other environmentally friendly raw materials, and generally have better qualities. We evaluate prices of similar raw materials for construction and then set a price with these two customers. We believe our customers might be able to obtain government support and grant for using these industrial waste materials products.

In addition, environment risk does not appears to be applied to us since we are assisting the end users of our solid waste recycling equipment to reduce their solid waste discharge and we did not create any environment effect or risk.

Cost of Revenues

The Company’s cost of revenues consists of cost of solid waste recycling systems and equipment revenues, cost of trading revenues, and cost of coating materials. Total cost of revenues decreased by approximately $3.0 million, or approximately 15.8% to approximately $16.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, compared to approximately $19.1 million for the same period in 2017. Our total cost of revenues decreased which was in line with the decrease of solid waste systems revenues because solid waste recycling infrastructure systems generally have a higher cost and selling price than solid waste recycling equipment.

Cost of revenues of solid waste recycling systems and equipment increased by approximately $7.0 million, or approximately 118.0% to approximately $12.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, compared to approximately $5.9 million for the same period in 2017. The increase in cost of revenues of solid waste recycling systems and equipment was primarily associated with the increase of sales volume of solid waste recycling systems as they have a much higher cost than solid waste recycling equipment because manufacturing those systems requires more materials in quantities and with more expensive materials, as well as the increase of unit purchase cost of steel and longer labor hours with the increase of overhead manufacturing cost.

Cost of revenues of trading of industrial waste materials and others decreased by approximately $11.8 million or 90.2%, to approximately $1.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, compared to $13.1 million for the same period in 2017. The decrease was in line with the decrease in revenues of trading of industrial waste materials and other general merchandises. Our cost of revenues from trading of industrial waste materials and others revenues are summarized as follows:

Our total sold quantity of each kind of industrial waste materials and their average purchasing price are summarized as follows:

Gross Profit

The Company’s gross profit decreased by approximately $15.4 million, or 80.2%, to approximately $3.8 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2018, from approximately $19.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. For the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, the Company’s gross margin was approximately 19.2% and 50.2%, respectively. The decrease in gross margin was primarily due to the increase of sales volume of solid waste recycling systems as they have a much higher cost than solid waste recycling equipment, which in turn, decreased our gross margin percentage from 67.7% for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 to 15.9% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018. The decrease in gross margin was also due to more of the lower profit margin industrial waste materials of Ilmenite Tailing and Copper Smelting Tailings being sold during the nine months September 30, 2018 as compared to the higher profit margin industrial waste materials of Acid Hydrolysis Titanium and Petroleum FCC Catalyst being sold during the nine months ended September 30, 2017. As a result, the gross margin percentage for our trading operations and others decreased from 34.2% for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 to 30.1% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018. The decrease in gross margin was also due to the newly added business of producing and selling coating materials after our acquisition of Wuhan HOST in May 2018. The gross margin of coating materials was approximately 30.7% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.

Operating Expenses (Income)

The Company’s operating expenses (income) include selling, general and administrative (“SG&A”) expenses and recovery of doubtful accounts. SG&A expenses increased by approximately $1.2 million, by approximately 111.2%, from approximately $1.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 to approximately $2.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018. The increase in selling, general and administrative expenses was primarily due to the increase of professional fees of $1.0 million, such as audit, legal, consulting, public relation, and other professional fees in relation to the business combination between JM Global and China Sunlong in February 2018, acquisition of Wuhan HOST audit, accounting and legal advisory services, and being a public company thereafter for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 as compared to the same period in 2017. The increase also attributable to the increase of $0.2 million SG&A expenses incurred in Wuhan HOST, our new acquired subsidiary in May 2018, offset by the decrease of approximately $0.1 million SG&A expenses in TJComex BVI which we disposed in April 2018.

We recovered doubtful accounts of approximately $2.4 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2018. At the beginning of 2017, we were trying to expand our trading of industrial waste materials business and gaining market shares by granting a 30 days credit term of the revenue to our customers. We did not collect our accounts receivable per credit term as expected. As a result, we had to assess the potential losses and provide provision of allowances on the accounts receivable for the year ended December 31, 2017. However, for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, we were able to collect some of the accounts receivable that were previously reserved, so we recovered those doubtful accounts charges.

Income from Operations

As a result of the foregoing, income from operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 was approximately $3.8 million, a decrease of approximately $11.4 million, or approximately 74.8%, from approximately $15.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. As a percentage of total revenues, income from operations decreased to approximately 19.3% during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 from approximately 39.8% during the same period in 2017. The decrease was mostly driven by the increase of revenues from the lower profit margin products, solid waste recycling systems and the decrease of revenues from the higher profit margin products, solid waste recycling equipment as discussed above.

Other Income (Expense)

The Company’s other income (expense) consists of interest income, interest expense and other income (expense), net. The Company’s other expense was approximately $91,000 during the nine months ended September 30, 2018, an decrease of approximately $66,000, or approximately 42.0%, as compared to other expenses of approximately $157,000 during the same period in 2017. The decrease of other expense was mainly attributable to currency exchange gains of approximately $69,000 recognized and the decrease of non-operating expense for approximately $4,000 and offset by the increase of interest expense of approximately $8,000 during the nine months ended September 30, 2018.

Provision for Income Taxes

The Company’s provision for income tax was approximately $0.7 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2018, compared to approximately $2.5 million for the same period in 2017. Under the Income Tax Laws of the PRC, companies are generally subject to income tax at a rate of 25%. However, the Company’s 100% subsidiary, Hubei Shengrong, obtained the “high-tech enterprise” tax status in 2014, which reduced its statutory income tax rate to 15%. Hubei Shengrong renewed its “high-tech enterprise” status in December 2016, which continued to reduce its statutory income rate to 15% from 2017 to 2019. The decrease in provision for income taxes is in line with the decrease in income before income taxes. However, we have incurred approximately $1.0 million of non-deductible expenses for income tax purpose, as a result the effective tax rate increased from 16.4% for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 to 19.7% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018.

Net Income

As a result of the foregoing, net income decreased by approximately $9.6 million, or 76.1%, to approximately $3.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, from approximately $12.6 million for the same period in 2017.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires our management to make assumptions, estimates and judgments that affect the amounts reported, including the notes thereto, and related disclosures of commitments and contingencies, if any. We have identified certain accounting policies that are significant to the preparation of our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. These accounting policies are important for an understanding of our financial condition and results of operation. Critical accounting policies are those that are most important to the portrayal of our financial conditions and results of operations and require management's difficult, subjective, or complex judgment, often as a result of the need to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain and may change in subsequent periods. Certain accounting estimates are particularly sensitive because of their significance to financial statements and because of the possibility that future events affecting the estimate may differ significantly from management's current judgments. We believe the following critical accounting policies involve the most significant estimates and judgments used in the preparation of our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

Accounts receivable

Accounts receivable include trade accounts due from customers. An allowance for doubtful accounts may be established and recorded based on management’s assessment of potential losses based on the credit history and relationships with the customers. Management reviews its receivables on a regular basis to determine if the bad debt allowance is adequate, and adjusts the allowance when necessary. Delinquent account balances are written-off against allowance for doubtful accounts after management has determined that the likelihood of collection is not probable.

The Company established a policy to provide a provision of 20% for accounts receivable outstanding more than 3 months but less than 6 months, 40% for accounts receivable outstanding more than 6 months but less than 9 months, 60% for accounts receivable outstanding more than 9 months but less than 1 year, and 100% for accounts receivable outstanding more than 1 year, net of subsequent collections.

Inventories

Inventories are comprised of raw materials and work in progress and are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value using the first-in-first-out method. Management reviews inventories for obsolescence and cost in excess of net realizable value at least annually and records a reserve against the inventory when the carrying value exceeds net realizable value.

Prepayments

Prepayments are monies deposited or advanced to outside vendors for future inventory purchases. As a standard practice in China, many of the Company’s vendors require a certain amount to be deposited with them as a guarantee that the Company will complete its purchases on a timely basis. This amount is refundable and bears no interest. The Company has legally binding contracts with its vendors, which require any outstanding prepayments to be returned to the Company when the contract ends.

Fair value measurement

The accounting standard regarding fair value of financial instruments and related fair value measurements defines financial instruments and requires disclosure of the fair value of financial instruments held by us. The Company considers the carrying amount of cash, notes receivable, accounts receivable, other receivables, prepayments, accounts payable, other payables and accrued liabilities, customer deposits, short term loans and taxes payable to approximate their fair values because of their short term nature.

The accounting standards define fair value, establish a three-level valuation hierarchy for disclosures of fair value measurement and enhance disclosure requirements for fair value measures. The three levels are defined as follow:

Revenue recognition

On January 1, 2018, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2014-09 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (ASC 606) using the modified retrospective method for contracts that were not completed as of January 1, 2018.  This did not result in an adjustment to retained earnings upon adoption of this new guidance as the Company’s revenue, other than warranty revenues, was recognized based on the amount of consideration we expect to receive in exchange for satisfying the performance obligations. However, the impact of the Company’s warranty revenue was not material as of the date of adoption, and as a result, did not result in an adjustment.

The core principle underlying the revenue recognition ASU is that the Company will recognize revenue to represent the transfer of goods and services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in such exchange. This will require the Company to identify contractual performance obligations and determine whether revenue should be recognized at a point in time or over time, based on when control of goods and services transfers to a customer.  The Company’s revenue streams are primarily recognized at a point in time except for the warranty revenues where the warranty periods are recognized over the warranty period, usually is a period of twelve months.

The ASU requires the use of a new five-step model to recognize revenue from customer contracts. The five-step model requires that the Company (i) identify the contract with the customer, (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract, (iii) determine the transaction price, including variable consideration to the extent that it is probable that a significant future reversal will not occur, (iv) allocate the transaction price to the respective performance obligations in the contract, and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) the Company satisfies the performance obligation. The application of the five-step model to the revenue streams compared to the prior guidance did not result in significant changes in the way the Company records its revenue. Upon adoption, the Company evaluated its revenue recognition policy for all revenue streams within the scope of the ASU under previous standards and using the five-step model under the new guidance and confirmed that there were no differences in the pattern of revenue recognition except its warranty revenues.

An entity will also be required to determine if it controls the goods or services prior to the transfer to the customer in order to determine if it should account for the arrangement as a principal or agent. Principal arrangements, where the entity controls the goods or services provided, will result in the recognition of the gross amount of consideration expected in the exchange. Agent arrangements, where the entity simply arranges but does not control the goods or services being transferred to the customer, will result in the recognition of the net amount the entity is entitled to retain in the exchange.

Revenue from equipment and systems and revenue from trading and others are recognized at the date of goods delivered and title passed to customers, when a formal arrangement exists, the price is fixed or determinable, the Company has no other significant obligations and collectability is reasonably assured. In addition, training service revenues are recognized when the services are rendered and the Company has no other obligations, and collectability is reasonably assured. These revenues are recognized at a point in time.

Prior to January 1, 2018, the Company allowed its customers to retain 5% to 10% of the contract price as retainage during the warranty period of 12 months to guarantee product quality. Retainage is considered as a payment term included as a part of the contract price, and was recognized as revenue upon the shipment of products. Due to nature of the retainage, the Company’s policy is to record revenue the full value of the contract without VAT, including any retainage, since the Company has experienced insignificant warranty claims historically. Due to the infrequent and insignificant amount of warranty claims, the ability to collect retainage was reasonably assured and was recognized at the time of shipment. On January 1, 2018, upon the adoption of ASU 2014-09 (ASC 606), revenues from product warranty are recognized over the warranty period over 12 months. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018, less than 5% of our warranty revenues were recognized in our consolidated revenues and included in the Company’s equipment and systems revenues in the accompanying unaudited condensed statements of income and comprehensive income.

Payments received before all of the relevant criteria for revenue recognition are recorded as customer deposits.

Gross versus Net Revenue Reporting

Starting from July 2016, in the normal course of the Company’s trading of industrial waste materials business, the Company directly purchases the processed industrial waste materials from the Company’s suppliers under the Company’s specifications and drop ships the materials directly to the Company’s customers. The Company would inspect the materials at its customers’ site, during which inspection it temporarily assumes legal title to the materials, and after which inspection legal title is transferred to its customers. In these situations, the Company generally collects the sales proceed directly from the Company’s customers and pay for the inventory purchases to the Company’s suppliers separately. The determination of whether revenues should be reported on a gross or net basis is based on the Company’s assessment of whether it is the principal or an agent in the transaction. In determining whether the Company is the principal or an agent, the Company follows the new accounting guidance for principal-agent considerations. Since the Company is the primary obligor and is responsible for (i) fulfilling the processed industrial waste materials delivery, (ii) controlling the inventory by temporarily assume legal title to the materials after inspecting the products from our vendors before passing the materials to our customers, and (iii) bearing the back-end risk of inventory loss with respect to any product return from the Company’s customers, the Company has concluded that it is the principal in these arrangements, and therefore report revenues and cost of revenues on a gross basis.

Recently Issue Accounting Pronouncements

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-01, Business Combinations (Topic 805): Clarifying the definition of a business. The amendments in this ASU is to clarify the definition of a business with the objective of adding guidance to assist entities with evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions (or disposals) of assets or businesses. The definition of a business affects many areas of accounting including acquisitions, disposals, goodwill, and consolidation. The amendments are effective for public business entities for fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within those fiscal year. For all other entities, the amendments in this ASU are effective for fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2019. The adoption of this ASU did not have a material effect on our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

In May 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-09, Scope of Modification Accounting, which amends the scope of modification accounting for share-based payment arrangements and provides guidance on the types of changes to the terms or conditions of share-based payment awards to which an entity would be required to apply modification accounting under ASC 718. For all entities, this ASU is effective for annual reporting periods, including interim periods within those annual reporting periods, beginning after December 15, 2017. Early adoption is permitted, including adoption in any interim period. The adoption of this ASU did not have a material effect on our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

In September 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-13, Revenue Recognition (Topic 605), Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), Leases (Topic 840), and Leases (Topic 842). This Accounting Standards Update adds SEC paragraphs pursuant to an SEC Staff Announcement made at the July 20, 2017 Emerging Issues Task Force meeting. Management plans to adopt this ASU during the year ending December 2019. We do not believe the adoption of this ASU would have a material effect on our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

In November 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-14, Income Statement-Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220), Revenue Recognition (Topic 605), and Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). This Accounting Standards Update supersedes various SEC paragraphs and amends an SEC paragraphs pursuant to the issuance of Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 116 and SEC Release No.33-10403. Management plans to adopt this ASU during the year ending December 2019. We do not believe the adoption of this ASU would have a material effect on our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

In February 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-02, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income. The amendments in this Update affect any entity that is required to apply the provisions of Topic 220, Income Statement – Reporting Comprehensive Income, and has items of other comprehensive income for which the related tax effects are presented in other comprehensive income as required by GAAP. The amendments in this Update are effective for all entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption of the amendments in this Update is permitted, including adoption in any interim period, (1) for public business entities for reporting periods for which financial statements have not yet been issued and (2) for all other entities for reporting periods for which financial statements have not yet been made available for issuance. The amendments in this Update should be applied either in the period of adoption or retrospectively to each period (or periods) in which the effect of the change in the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is recognized. We do not believe the adoption of this ASU would have a material effect on our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

We do not believe other recently issued but not yet effective accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on our unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets, statements of income and comprehensive income and statements of cash flows.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The Company has funded working capital and other capital requirements primarily by equity contributions, loans from shareholders, cash flow from operations, short term bank loans, loans from third parties and cash received from JM Global Holding Company through the reverse capitalization. Cash is required to repay debts and pay salaries, office expenses, income taxes and other operating expenses. As of September 30, 2018, our net working capital was approximately $23.7 million.

We believe that current levels of cash and cash flows from operations will be sufficient to meet its anticipated cash needs for at least the next 12 months from the date the unaudited condensed interim financial to be issued. However, it may need additional cash resources in the future if it experiences changed business conditions or other developments, and may also need additional cash resources in the future if it wishes to pursue opportunities for investment, acquisition, strategic cooperation or other similar actions. If it is determined that the cash requirements exceed the Company’s amounts of cash and cash equivalents on hand, the Company may seek to issue debt or equity securities or obtain additional credit facility.

Prepayments

As of September 30, 2018, we prepaid approximately $32.0 million to our vendors for inventory purchases, of which approximately $10.6 million were prepaid primarily related to our solid waste recycling systems and equipment operations and approximately $21.2 million were prepaid primarily related to our trading of industrial waste materials operations. We are required to make such prepayments for our systems and equipment operations because the orders that we placed had unique specifications with such a high volume, we must make such prepayments in order for us to secure our purchases to meet our production timely. We are required to make such prepayments for our trading operations because the orders that we placed had unique processing specifications, our suppliers will not process the industrial waste materials without getting any prepayments from us. In addition, our vendors can provide us with better pricing on these purchases by making such prepayments. We expect that we should be able to utilize all of our prepayments as of September 30, 2018 for the next twelve months. No loss allowance were required as none of these vendors have ever failed to meet the contractual obligation on our purchase orders. None of these vendors are related to our Company or any of our managements.

The following summarizes the key components of the Company’s cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017.

As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the Company had cash in the amount of $889,244 and $461,883, respectively. As of September 30, 2018, approximately $881,000 and approximately $8,000 were held by the Company’s subsidiaries in the PRC and Hong Kong, respectively. As of December 31, 2017, approximately $459,000 and approximately $3,000 were held by the Company’s subsidiaries in the PRC and Hong Kong, respectively.

Operating activities

Net cash used in operating activities was approximately $1.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, as compared to approximately $0.1 million net cash provided by operating activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2017.  Net cash used in operating activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 was mainly due to the recovery of doubtful accounts of approximately $2.4 million as we collected more aged accounts receivables, the increase of notes receivable of approximately $0.4 million as our customers used more notes receivable for payment which we needs to wait approximately 3 to 6 months to deposit the notes, the increase of accounts receivable of approximately $0.4 million as we generated more sales on credits, the increase of approximately $13.8 million of prepayments as the reason as discussed above, and the decrease of approximately $0.3 million of customer deposits after realized more sales during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 of applying such customer deposit, offset by approximately $3.0 million of net income from our operations, the increase of approximately $0.2 million of accumulated depreciation and amortization of fixed assets, various non-cash transactions, such as depreciation and amortization expenses of plant and equipment, amortization of intangible assets, and deferred tax benefit and provision, of approximately $0.8 million, the decrease of approximately $4.7 million of accounts receivable – related party as we have collected more cash on receivables, the increase of approximately $0.2 million of deferred revenue upon adoption of the ASC 606, the decrease of approximately $3.5 million of inventories as we have shipped some solid waste recycling equipment and system to our customers during the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the increase of approximately $0.3 million other payables and accrued liabilities, and the increase of approximately $2.8 million of taxes payable as we have incurred more taxes payable from our operations.

Investing activities

Net cash provided by investing activities was approximately $1.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, as compared to approximately $22,000 net cash provided by investing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. Net cash provided by investing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 was mainly due to cash amounted to approximately $8.0 million received from JM Global Holding Company through reverse capitalization offset by the acquisition payment on Wuhan HOST of approximately $6.2 million, net of approximately $0.3 million cash held at Wuhan HOST.

Financing activities

Net cash provided by financing activities was approximately $0.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, as compared to approximately $0.2 million net cash used in financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. Net cash provided by financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 was mainly due to the issuance of common stock of approximately $133,000 to a group of unrelated third party investors in the PRC, approximately $2.3 million loan from short-term bank loan, approximately $20,000 loan from a third party and approximately $0.5 million loan from our related party offset by approximately $2.3 million repayment on short-term bank loan.

Risks

Credit Risk

Credit risk is one of the most significant risks for the Company’s business.

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to significant concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and accounts receivable. Cash held at major financial institutions located in the PRC are not insured by the government. While we believe that these financial institutions are of high credit quality, it also continually monitors their credit worthiness.

Accounts receivable are typically unsecured and derived from revenue earned from customers, thereby exposed to credit risk. Credit risk is controlled by the application of credit approvals, limits and monitoring procedures. The Company manages credit risk through in-house research and analysis of the Chinese economy and the underlying obligors and transaction structures. To minimize credit risk, the Company normally require prepayment from the customers prior to begin production or delivery products. The Company identifies credit risk collectively based on industry, geography and customer type. This information is monitored regularly by management.

In measuring the credit risk of our sales to our customers, the Company mainly reflects the “probability of default” by the customer on its contractual obligations and considers the current financial position of the customer and the exposures to the customer and its likely future development.

Liquidity Risk

The Company is also exposed to liquidity risk which is risk that it is unable to provide sufficient capital resources and liquidity to meet its commitments and business needs. Liquidity risk is controlled by the application of financial position analysis and monitoring procedures. When necessary, the Company will turn to other financial institutions and the owners to obtain short-term funding to meet the liquidity shortage.

Inflation Risk

The Company is also exposed to inflation risk Inflationary factors, such as increases in raw material and overhead costs, could impair our operating results. Although we do not believe that inflation has had a material impact on our financial position or results of operations to date, a high rate of inflation in the future may have an adverse effect on our ability to maintain current levels of gross margin and operating expenses as a percentage of sales revenue if the selling prices of our products do not increase with such increased costs.

Foreign Currency Risk

A majority of the Company’s operating activities and a significant portion of the Company’s assets and liabilities are denominated in RMB, which is not freely convertible into foreign currencies. All foreign exchange transactions take place either through the Peoples’ Bank of China (“PBOC”) or other authorized financial institutions at exchange rates quoted by PBOC. Approval of foreign currency payments by the PBOC or other regulatory institutions requires submitting a payment application form together with suppliers’ invoices and signed contracts. The value of RMB is subject to changes in central government policies and to international economic and political developments affecting supply and demand in the China Foreign Exchange Trading System market.

ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

Credit Risk

Credit risk is one of the most significant risks for the Company’s business.

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to significant concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and accounts receivable. Cash held at major financial institutions located in the PRC are not insured by the government. While we believe that these financial institutions are of high credit quality, it also continually monitors their credit worthiness.

Accounts receivable are typically unsecured and derived from revenue earned from customers, thereby exposed to credit risk. Credit risk is controlled by the application of credit approvals, limits and monitoring procedures. The Company manages credit risk through in-house research and analysis of the Chinese economy and the underlying obligors and transaction structures. To minimize credit risk, the Company normally require prepayment from the customers prior to begin production or delivery products. The Company identifies credit risk collectively based on industry, geography and customer type. This information is monitored regularly by management.

In measuring the credit risk of our sales to our customers, the Company mainly reflects the “probability of default” by the customer on its contractual obligations and considers the current financial position of the customer and the exposures to the customer and its likely future development.

Liquidity Risk

The Company is also exposed to liquidity risk which is risk that it is unable to provide sufficient capital resources and liquidity to meet its commitments and business needs. Liquidity risk is controlled by the application of financial position analysis and monitoring procedures. When necessary, the Company will turn to other financial institutions and the owners to obtain short-term funding to meet the liquidity shortage.

Inflation Risk

The Company is also exposed to inflation risk Inflationary factors, such as increases in raw material and overhead costs, could impair our operating results. Although we do not believe that inflation has had a material impact on our financial position or results of operations to date, a high rate of inflation in the future may have an adverse effect on our ability to maintain current levels of gross margin and operating expenses as a percentage of sales revenue if the selling prices of our products do not increase with such increased costs.

Foreign Currency Risk

A majority of the Company’s operating activities and a significant portion of the Company’s assets and liabilities are denominated in RMB, which is not freely convertible into foreign currencies. All foreign exchange transactions take place either through the Peoples’ Bank of China (“PBOC”) or other authorized financial institutions at exchange rates quoted by PBOC. Approval of foreign currency payments by the PBOC or other regulatory institutions requires submitting a payment application form together with suppliers’ invoices and signed contracts. The value of RMB is subject to changes in central government policies and to international economic and political developments affecting supply and demand in the China Foreign Exchange Trading System market.

ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Disclosure controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in company reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

As required by Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2018. Based upon his evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15 (e) and 15d-15 (e) under the Exchange Act) were not effective.

During the most recently completed fiscal quarter, there has been no other change in our internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II — OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

From time to time, we may become involved in various lawsuits and legal proceedings, which arise in the ordinary course of business. However, litigation is subject to inherent uncertainties, and an adverse result in these or other matters may arise from time to time that may harm business. We are currently not aware of any such legal proceedings or claims that will have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or operating results. 

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

Not applicable to a smaller reporting company.

ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS

None. 

ITEM 3. DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES

None.

ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

Not applicable.

ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION

None.

ITEM 6. EXHIBITS

The following exhibits are filed as part of, or incorporated by reference into, this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.