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Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Prepaid Expense and Other Assets [Abstract] |
Prepaid expenses and other current assets | Prepaid expenses and other current assets Prepaid expenses and other current assets consist of the following at year end:
|  | 2018 |  | 2017
Prepaid taxes |  | $ | 74,538 |  |  | $ | 48,076 |
Prepaid expenses |  | 21,868 |  |  | 27,478 |
Promotion items and related advances |  | 12,417 |  |  | 17,683 |
Others |  | 407 |  |  | 967 |
|  | $ | 109,230 |  |  | $ | 94,204 |

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