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CAPITAL LEASES (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

CAPITAL LEASES

Schedule of net value of the leased assets

		At December 31, 2016			At December 31, 2017
		$			$
Machinery and equipment			17,206			131,624
Accumulated depreciation			(6,473	)		(46,727	)
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Machinery and equipment, net			10,733			84,897

Schedule of future minimum lease payments assets under capital leases

Year Ending December 31:		$
2018			59,340
2019			33,300
2020			14,231
2021 and thereafter			3,425
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Total minimum lease payments			110,296
Less: amount representing interest			6,982
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Present value of net minimum lease payments			103,314
Current portion			59,942
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Non-current portion			43,372
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Tabular information on the net value of leased assets.

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Tabular disclosure of future minimum lease payments as of the date of the latest balance sheet presented, in aggregate and for each of the five years succeeding fiscal years, with separate deductions from the total for the amount representing executor costs, including any profit thereon, included in the minimum lease payments and for the amount of the imputed interest necessary to reduce the net minimum lease payments to present value.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 840
-SubTopic 30
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84164817&loc=d3e45280-112737

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