EURO TECH HOLDINGS CO LTD

Regulatory Filings • Jan 9, 2009

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EURO TECH HOLDINGS COMPANY LIMITED

18/F Gee Chang Hong Centre

65 Wong Chuk Hang Road

Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 2814 0311

Fax: (852) 2873 4887

January 9, 2009

Via Facsimile to (202)772-9204 and Edgar

Ms. Sondra Snyder

Securities and Exchange Commission

450 Fifth Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20549-0404

Re: Euro Tech Holdings Company Limited (the “Company”)

Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2007

Filed June 30, 2008

File No. 0-22113

Dear Ms. Snyder,

We understand you have spoken to counsel that we have engaged to assist us in replying to your Comment Letter, and he conveyed our request for an extension of time to reply to the SEC’s Comment Letter of December 23, 2008, and file any necessary Amendment to our Form 20-F until February 6, 2009.

Our counsel advises that we have been granted an extension of time to respond until February 4, 2009.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned or our counsel, Robert Perez, Esq., at Gusrae, Kaplan, Bruno & Nusbaum, PLLC, 120 Wall Street, New York, New York, 10005, telephone number 212-269-1400, fax number 212-889-5449, email rperez@gkblaw.com .

Thank you for your courtesies, they are appreciated.

Very truly yours,

Euro Tech Holdings Company Limited

By: /s/ T.C. Leung