TEXT-EXTRACT 2 filename2.txt United States securities and exchange commission logo November 1, 2021 John Chen Executive Chairman FGI Industries Ltd. 906 Murray Road East Hanover, NJ 07869 Re: FGI Industries Ltd. Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed October 4, 2021 File No. 333-259457 Dear Mr. Chen: We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the requested information. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Unless we note otherwise, our references to prior comments are to comments in our September 30, 2021 letter. Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 Prospectus Cover Page, page i 1. We note your response to comment one. Please revise to disclose prominently on the prospectus cover page that you are not a Chinese operating company but a Cayman Islands holding company with operations conducted by your subsidiaries and that this structure involves unique risks to investors. Also, in response to comment one you disclosed to us that you do not own any manufacturing facilities. Please tell us whether you hold any interests, directly or indirectly, with your manufacturers including through operations conducted by your subsidiaries. 2. We note your response to prior comment three. Please revise the chart on page eight to disclose the domicile of Foremost Groups Ltd., and the missing percentages of voting and John Chen FirstName LastNameJohn Chen FGI Industries Ltd. Comapany 1, November NameFGI 2021 Industries Ltd. November Page 2 1, 2021 Page 2 FirstName LastName economic interests. Prospectus Summary, page 2 3. We note your response to prior comment five. Please state affirmatively whether you have received all requisite permissions from the CSRC, CAC or any other entity that is required to approve your or your subsidiaries' operations and whether any permissions have been denied. 4. We note your response to prior comment six and that you do not derive revenues from China, but FGI China pays salaries and related business expenses for certain China-based employees. Revise your disclosures to describe how you fund the costs incurred by FGI International and/or FGI China. Describe if the payments are in U.S. dollars and the form of the transfer, for example, loans, capital contributions or dividend distributions. Disclose if you plan to or anticipate transferring cash or other assets from your Chinese subsidiaries to any non-Chinese entities and describe each of the limitations on any capital contributions to these subsidiaries and dividends and distributions from these subsidiaries. Prospectus Summary Summary Financial Data, page 12 5. We note your disclosure of free cash flow and free cash flow conversion. Please revise to also disclose the comparable GAAP measures with equal or greater prominence. Refer to Item 10(e)(1)(i)(A) of Regulation S-K and footnote 27 of SEC Final Rule Release Number 33-8176, Conditions for Use of Non-GAAP measures. Risk Factors, page 13 6. We note your response to prior comment eight and your disclosure of your subsidiaries in Hong Kong and China. Please revise to separately highlight the risk that the Chinese government may intervene or influence your operations at any time, which could result in a material change in your operations and/or the value of your ordinary shares. Also, given recent statements by the Chinese government indicating an intent to exert more oversight and control over offerings that are conducted by foreign investment in China based issuers, acknowledge the risk that any such action could significantly limit or completely hinder your ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Non-GAAP Measures, page 57 7. We note that you reconcile free cash flow to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities. Considering your disclosures that free cash flow represents a non-GAAP performance measure, please instead reconcile it to net income, the most directly John Chen FGI Industries Ltd. November 1, 2021 Page 3 comparable GAAP measure. Refer to item (10)(e)(i)(B) of Regulation S-K. You may contact Melissa Gilmore, Staff Accountant at (202) 551-3777 or Andrew Blume, Staff Accountant at (202) 551-3254 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Sherry Haywood, Staff Attorney at (202) 551-3345 or Jay Ingram, Legal Branch Chief at (202) 551-3345 with any other questions. FirstName LastNameJohn Chen Sincerely, Comapany NameFGI Industries Ltd. Division of Corporation Finance November 1, 2021 Page 3 Office of Manufacturing FirstName LastName