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Lines of Credit and Construction Loan Facility

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

Lines of Credit and Construction Loan Facility [Abstract]

LINES OF CREDIT AND CONSTRUCTION LOAN FACILITY

NOTE 7 – LINES OF CREDIT AND CONSTRUCTION LOAN FACILITY

Lines of Credit

On June 25, 2021 the Company entered into a loan with Bank of Communications bearing an interest rate of 4.17%. The Company paid all principal and interest on June 21, 2022 and on June 22, 2022 entered into a new loan for the same principal amount bearing interest at 4.17% and due December 21, 2022. On December 21, 2022 the Company repaid the loan in full and entered into a new line of credit for an aggregate amount of RMB 7,300,000 (approximately $1.0 million) with interest payable monthly at a rate of 3.9%. The Company received an advance on the line of credit in the amount of RMB 3,800,000 (approximately $0.56 million) on December 30, 2022. On February 24, 2023 the Company received an advance on the line in the amount of RMB 3,500,000 (approximately $0.51 million). The Company has no further availability on this line of credit. The line of credit was payable on December 20, 2023. The line of credit was paid in full on December 15, 2023. On December 20, 2023, the Company received a new line of credit in the amount of RMB 3,800,000 and an interest rate of 3.9% and is due December 15, 2024. In addition, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board personally guaranteed the new line of credit and pledged personal assets as collateral for the loan. Total interest expense under this facility for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 was $31,750 and $53,283, respectively. On February 2, 2024 the Company repaid RMB 3,500,000 under this line of credit.

The Company obtained a line of credit of RMB 3,200,000 (approximately $0.5 million) from China CITIC Bank in September 2020 and obtained an advance of RMB 2,343,340 (approximately $0.3 million), and the remaining of RMB 856,660 (approximately $0.1 million) in October 2020 under this line. The loan bears interest at the rate of 4.50% per annum. In September, 2021 the Company repaid the line of credit in full. Also in September, 2021 the Company entered into a new line a credit in the amount of RMB 3,200,000 (approximately $0.8 million). The loan bears interest at the rate of 4.50% per annum. The line of credit was due on September 2, 2022. The line of credit was paid in full on September 6, 2022. On September 9, 2022, the Company received a new line of credit in the same amount. The loan bears interest at a rate of 4.5% and is due on September 7, 2023 and was repaid in full as of that date. In addition, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board had personally guaranteed the new line of credit and pledged personal assets as collateral for the loan. Total interest expense under this facility for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 was $19,579 and $20,548, respectively.

On September 18, 2021 the Company obtained a line of credit for RMB 10,000,000 (approximately $1.54 million) with Bank of China. The loan bears interest at the rate of 3.85% per annum. The line of credit was paid in full on the due date of September 18, 2022. On September 30, 2022 the Company received a new line of credit in the same amount. The loan bears interest at the rate of 3.45% and was due September 28, 2023. On September 22, 2023 the Company repaid this note in full. On September 25, 2023 the Company entered into a three-year revolving loan and received proceeds of RMB 10,000,000 (approximately $1.4 million). The interest rate for the loan is 3.35% for the first twelve months of the loan and adjusts based on the latest one-year loan market quotation rate less 10 basis points as published by the China National Interbank Funding Center on the working day prior to each twelve month anniversary of the loan. The loan is due on September 24, 2026. The loan is collateralized by the Company’s new production facility and the included production line equipment and machinery. In addition, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board personally guaranteed the new line of credit. Total interest paid on this loan was $48,624 and $54,923 for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Principal payments required for the remaining terms of the lines of credit as of December 31, 2023 are as follows:

Year	Lines of Credit
2024	$	2,442,571
	$	2,442,571

In April 2020, the Company obtained a line of credit from Postal Savings Bank of China for an aggregate amount of RMB 10,000,000 (approximately $1.4 million), of which RMB 5,000,000 (approximately $0.7 million) was advanced in April 2020, and RMB 3,000,000 (approximately $0.4 million) was advanced in July 2020. The loan bore interest at a rate of 4.25% per annum. Advances on the line of credit were due two years from the date of the advance. A third party company had guaranteed the loan as being a second priority creditor in the collateral in certain land use rights and buildings next to the creditor of the construction loan facility as discussed above. In addition, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board personally guaranteed the line of credit. Total interest expense under this facility for the years ended December 31, 2022 was $12,063. The Company repaid the remaining RMB 5,900,000 (approximately $0.85) during the year ended December 31, 2022 as per the repayment schedule in full satisfaction of the line of credit.

Fair Value of Lines of Credit – Based on the borrowing rates currently available to the Company for bank loans with similar terms and maturities, the carrying amounts of the construction loan facility outstanding as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022 approximated its fair value because the underlying instrument bears an interest rate that approximated current market rates.