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Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
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:
|  | 2020 |  | 2019
Prepaid taxes |  | $ | 48,781 |  |  | $ | 73,932 |
Prepaid expenses |  | 30,175 |  |  | 24,266 |
Promotion items and related advances |  | 20,701 |  |  | 19,092 |
Others |  | 812 |  |  | 322 |
|  | $ | 100,469 |  |  | $ | 117,612 |

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