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KST AGM Information 2024

Jun 7, 2024

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K.S. TERMINALS INC.

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2024 Annual General Shareholders’ Meeti ng A da Handbook gen

Ju n e 6, 2024

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Table of Contents
Meeting Agenda ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1
Reports --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3
Ratification ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4
Discussion ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5
Election -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5
Other Proposals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6
Extraordinary Motions ------------------------------------------------------------- 6
Attachments
I. 2023 Business Report -------------------------------------------------------- 7
II. Audit Committee’s Review Report --------------------------------------- 11
III. The CPAs’ Audit Report and the 2023 Parent Company Only and
Consolidated Financial Statements --------------------------------------- 12
IV. Statement of Earnings Distribution -------------------------------------- 32
V. Comparison Table of Amendments to the “Corporate Social
Responsibility Best-Practice Principles” -------------------------------- 33
VI. Comparison Table of Amendments to the “Rules Governing
Shareholders’ Meetings” --------------------------------------------------- 44
VII. List of Director Candidates for the 9th Term ------------------------ 58
**VIII. ** Concurrent Positions Held by Candidates for Directors for the 9th
Term ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60
IX. Articles of Incorporation --------------------------------------------------- 61
X. Rules Governing Shareholders’ Meetings (Before Amendment) --- 67
XI. Procedures for Election of Directors ------------------------------------- 75
XII. Shareholding of Directors -------------------------------------------------- 77
**XIII. ** Other Matters ----------------------------------------------------------------- 78

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

2024 Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting Agenda

Date and Time : June 6, 2024 (Thursday) 9:00 a.m.

Venue: Meeting Room of the Company’s R&D Building at No. 13, Zhangbin East 3rd Road, Xianxi Township, Changhua County, Taiwan (R.O.C.) (physical shareholders’ meeting)

Meeting Procedure:

One. Call to Order

Two. Chairman’s Opening Speech

Three. Reports

  • I. 2023 Business Report

  • II. Audit Committee’s review report on the 2023 financial statements.

  • III.Remuneration distribution to employees and directors for 2023.

  • IV.Distribution of cash dividends from earnings in 2023.

  • V. Amendment to the “Sustainable Development Best-Practice Principles” (originally “Corporate Social Responsibility Best-Practice Principles”)

Four. Ratification

  • I. Ratification of the 2023 financial statements.

  • II. 2023 earnings distribution.

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Five. Discussion

  • I. Amendment to the Company’s “Rules Governing Shareholders’ Meetings.”

Six. Election

  • I. Election of the Company’s 9th Board of Directors

Seven. Other Proposals

  • I. Lifting of the non-competition restriction against the Company’s new directors.

Eight. Extraordinary Motions

Nine. Adjournment

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Three. Reports

I. 2023 Business Report

Description:

  • (I) For the 2023 Business Report, please refer to Attachment 1 (p. 7-10 of this Handbook).

  • (II) Please review.

  • II. Audit Committee’s review report on the 2023 financial statements.

Description:

  • (I) For the Audit Committee’s Review Report, please refer to Attachment 2 (p. 11 of this Handbook).

  • (II) Please review.

  • III. Remuneration distribution to employees and directors for 2023.

Description:

  • (I) Information on remuneration to employees and directors stipulated in the Articles of Incorporation:

  • If the Company has a profit in the year, it should first set aside no less than 3% as remuneration to employees and no more than 3% as remuneration to directors. However, earnings shall first be used to make up accumulated losses, if any.

  • (II) Distribution of 2023 remuneration to employees and directors passed by resolution of the Board of Directors is as follows:

Unit: NTD

Unit: NTD
Distribution
Item
Amount
of
Distribution by
Resolution
of
the Board of
Directors (A)
Estimated
Amount of
Expenses
Recognized in
2023 (B)
Discrepancy
(A-B)
Reason for
Discrepancy and its
Handling
Remuneration
to Employees
23,000,000 23,000,000 0 None
Remuneration
to Directors
9,000,000 9,000,000 0
  • (III)Amounts above were distributed in cash.

  • (IV)Please review.

  • IV. Distribution of cash dividends from earnings in 2023.

Description:

  • (I) Under Article 31 of the Company’s Articles of Incorporation, the Board of Directors is authorized to distribute all or part of the dividends or bonuses in cash, which shall be reported at the shareholders’ meeting.

  • (II) The bonus to shareholders was NTD 233,482,335, NTD 1.5 of cash dividends per share. The Chairman has been authorized to set an ex-dividend date and distribution date. Cash dividends are calculated and truncated to the nearest NTD

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     1. Fractions that do not amount to a full NTD 1 shall be summed and recognized as other income of the Company.

  - (III)Where there is a change in the Company’s capital stock that affects the number of outstanding shares, resulting in change in the ratio of shareholders’ cash allotment, the Chairman is authorized to handle such situation.

  - (IV)Please review.
  • V. Amendment to the “Sustainable Development Best-Practice Principles” (originally “Corporate Social Responsibility Best-Practice Principles”)

  • Description:

    • (I) Renaming the “Corporate Social Responsibility Best-Practice Principles” the “Sustainable Development Best-Practice Principles” and making amendments to the relevant provisions accordingly. The comparison table of the amendments is shown in Attachment 5 (p. 33–43 of this Handbook).

    • (II) Please review.

Four. Ratification

  • I. Ratification of the 2023 Financial Statements (proposed by the Board of Directors) Description:

  • (I) The Company’s 2023 Parent Company Only and Consolidated Financial Statements have been audited by CPAs Chen Ming-Hung and Huang Yu-Ting of EY Taiwan, with an audit report issued. The audit report, alongside the business report, has been submitted to the Audit Committee for review.

  • (II) For the 2023 Business Report, please refer to Attachment 1 (p. 7-10 of this Handbook).

  • (III)For various financial statements for 2023, please refer to Attachment 3 (p. 12-31 of this Handbook).

  • (IV)Please ratify the proposal.

Resolution:

  • II. 2023 Earnings Distribution (proposed by the Board of Directors) Description:

  • (I) The profit after tax for 2023 totaled NTD 543,440,520. Under the Articles of Incorporation, a statement of earnings distribution shall be proposed. Please refer to Attachment 4 (p. 32 of this Handbook).

  • (II) Distribution of earnings will give priority to the 2023 earnings.

  • (III)Please ratify the proposal.

Resolution:

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Five. Discussion

  • I. Amendment to the Company’s “Rules Governing Shareholders’ Meetings” (proposed by the Board of Directors)

Description:

  • (I) It is proposed to amend the Company’s “Rules Governing Shareholders’ Meetings” in accordance with the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi Order No. 1120004167 dated March 17, 2023 to amend the “Sample Template for XXX Co., Ltd. Rules of Procedure for Shareholders Meetings.” The comparison table of the amendments is shown in Attachment 6 (pp. 44–57 of this Handbook).

  • (II) Please proceed with voting.

Resolution:

Six. Election

  • I. Election of the 9th Board of Directors. (Proposed by the Board of Directors) Description:

  • (I) The term of office of the Company’s directors will expire on July 14, 2024, and a re-election is planned to be held at the 2024 Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting.

  • (II) In accordance with the Articles of Incorporation, nine directors (including four independent directors) shall be elected. The directors shall be elected by shareholders under the candidate nomination system from the list of director candidates. The new directors shall assume office immediately after the conclusion of the annual general shareholders’ meeting for a term of three years from June 6, 2024 to June 5, 2027. The term of office of the original directors expires until the new directors take office.

  • (III)Please refer to Attachment 7 for the list of candidates for directors the 9th term (p. 58–59 of this Handbook).

  • (IV)Please vote.

Election results:

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Seven. Other Proposals

  • I. Lifting of the non-competition restriction against the Company’s new directors (proposed by the Board of Directors)

Description:

  • (I) Pursuant to Paragraph 1, Article 209 of the Company Act, “A director who does anything for himself or on behalf of another person that is within the scope of the company’s business, shall explain to the meeting of shareholders the essential contents of such an act and secure its approval.”

  • (II) It is proposed that the annual general shareholders’ meeting lift the non-competition restrictions imposed by Article 209 of the Company Act on the Company’s new directors. Please refer to Attachment 8 (p. 60 of this Handbook) for details.

(III)Please proceed with voting.

Resolution:

Eight. Extraordinary Motions

Nine. Adjournment

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[Attachment 1]

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

2023 Business Report

The international economy continues to be under the influence of high inflation and interest rates. China’s post-pandemic economy also shows no signs of recovery. Geopolitical events such as the continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Israel–Hamas War in the Middle East, and the Red Sea shipping crisis have caused weak global demand for end products. The industry is still actively destocking, and the manufacturing activities in various countries have yet to recover.

In the first three quarters of 2023, Taiwan’s import, export, and export orders experienced double-digit declines. Except for retail, tourism, passenger transport, semiconductor, and the emerging AI application technology, which have recovered from the pandemic and expanded domestic demand, all industries have experienced a significant decline in orders due to the high base period of 2022 and weak global economy.

Last year, the Company was affected by factors such as inventory adjustment by customers in Europe and the United States, the sharp decline in China’s real estate and private investment, and the change in the specifications of the charging gun products, which caused the overall revenue and profit after tax in 2023 to fall by 13.95% and 39.12%, respectively, compared with 2022.

I. 2023 Business Report

The Company’s 2023 revenue totaled NTD 4,170 million, a decrease of 13.95% compared to NTD 4,846 million in 2022.

Operating profit totaled NTD 689 million, a decrease of 29.91% compared to NTD 983 million in 2022.

Profit after tax was NTD 549 million, a decrease of 39.12% compared to NTD 902 million in 2022.

Profit per share after tax was NTD 3.49.

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(I) Results of the Implementation of the Business Plan:

Unit: NTD thousand

Item 2023 Actual
Number
2022 Actual Number Increase (Decrease)
Percentage(%)
OperatingIncome 4,169,674
4,845,515

(13.95)
OperatingCosts 2,888,105
3,240,321

(10.87)
Operating Gross
Profit
1,281,569
1,605,194

(20.16)
Operating
Expenses
592,355
621,799

(4.74)
OperatingProfit 689,214
983,395

(29.91)
Profit Before Tax 769,935
1,252,070

(38.51)
Profit After Tax 549,103
901,893

(39.12)
  • (II) Revenue, Expenses, and Profitability Analysis

Unit: NTD thousand

Analysis Item 2023 2022
Financial
Income and
Expenditure
Interest Income 64,397
26,636
Interest Expenditure 12,874
13,179
Profitability
Analysis
Return on Assets (%) 6.92
11.16
Return on Shareholders’ Equity (%) 8.86
15.54
Operating Income to Paid-in Capital
Ratio(%)

44.28

63.18
Net Profit Before Tax to Paid-in
Capital Ratio(%)

49.46

80.44
Net Profit Margin (%) 13.17
18.61
Earnings per Share After Tax (NTD) 3.49
5.75

(III)Performance in Research and Development

  1. Development of a high-efficiency liquid-cooled DC charging gun.

  2. Development of AC and DC charging guns with NACS-compliant specifications.

  3. Development of electric terminals for copper and aluminum profiles.

II. 2024 Business Plan

(I) Business Policy

  1. Deploy in mainly targeted markets and emerging Markets, establish marketing and sales service bases.

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  1. Strengthen talent cultivation, including automation technology R&D talent, overseas manufacturing plant management talent, and overseas marketing talent.

  2. Upgrade the smart manufacturing management system and expand automation equipment, increasing production efficiency.

  3. Establish an ESG organization and function to promote the

low-carbonization of plants, offices, and products.

(II) Key Marketing Policies

  1. Set up a plant in Thailand and a manufacturing location in the U.S. to realize multi-site flexible production.

  2. Establish local sales teams in India, the United States, and Japan to collaborate more deeply with local car manufacturers, system manufacturers, and distributors.

  3. Enhance the international recognition of the Company’s brand and provide customers with complete product design services.

III. Company’s Future Development Strategy

  • (I) Further expand business in emerging markets including India and Southeast Asia and cultivate customers in mature markets including America and Japan in the meanwhile.

  • (II) Establish a complete series of charging gun products and enhance laboratory verification and professional technical service capabilities.

  • IV. Impact of the External Competitive Environment, Regulatory Environment, and Overall Business Environment

According to the forecast of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for 2024, the global demand for commodities will gradually recover, which will drive the growth of global trade. The annual growth rate of global trade is expected to increase from 0.9% in 2023 to 3.5% this year.

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Taiwan’s economy will slow down, quarter by quarter due to the high base period this year. The economic growth will be supported by business investment and foreign net demand, instead of private consumption last year. The Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research estimates that Taiwan’s economic growth rate in 2024 will be 3.10%. According to the latest economic forecast released by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Taiwan’s economic growth rate in 2024 will increase to 3.43%, which will be the largest growth since 2021.

Taiwan launched its carbon management mechanism in 2024. If the direct or indirect annual carbon emissions of a company’s factory reach 25,000 metric tons, a carbon fee will be levied. It is expected that a carbon fee will be officially levied in 2025 based on the emissions in 2024. The levy standards will also be announced later this year.

Taiwan is about to levy a carbon fee, coupled with the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and the US Clean Competition Act (CCA). These major international markets will also levy carbon tariffs in the future, and enterprises will become more and more aware of the carbon cost, forcing them to implement a low-carbon transition in their business model, including their products, manufacturing processes, and supply chains.

As a supplier of products for low-carbon and green transformation, K.S. TERMINALS’s main products cover green energy industries such as vehicle electrification, smart grids, energy storage, wind power, and solar energy. We have complete design and development, manufacturing, and rapid delivery capabilities. For a long time, the Company has established a presence in this fast-growing market. In recent years, we have accumulated more and more major customers, and the business opportunities are gradually emerging, which will better contribute to the revenue and profit.

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Chairman: Cheng Ke-Pin

General Manager: Cheng Chieh-Yuan

Chief Accounting Officer: Tseng Yu-Chin

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[Attachment 2]

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Audit Committee’s Review Report

The Board of Directors has submitted the Company’s 2023 financial statements, the proposal for earning distribution, and Business Report. Of these, the financial statements have been audited by the CPAs of EY Taiwan, with an audit report issued. The above-mentioned Business Report, financial statements, and proposal for earnings distribution have been reviewed by the Audit Committee and found to be in compliance with the provisions of Article 14-4 of the Securities and Exchange Act and Article 219 of the Company Act, with a report issued for review.

Submitted To

The Company’s 2024 Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Convener of the Audit Committee: Lai Jui-Hua

March 14, 2024

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[Attachment 3]

CPAs’ Audit Report

To K.S. TERMINALS INC.,

Audit Opinions

We have audited the accompanying parent company-only balance sheets of K.S. TERMINALS INC., (the “Company”) for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 and the relevant parent company-only statements of comprehensive income, changes in equity and cash flows for the years then ended, and relevant notes, including a summary of significant accounting policies (collectively referred to as the “parent company-only financial statements”).

In our opinion, based on our audits and the reports of other auditors (please refer to the Other Matters section of our report), the accompanying parent company-only financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 and its financial performance and cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with the Regulations Governing the Preparation of Financial Reports by Securities Issuers.

Basis for Audit Opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with the Regulations Governing the Auditing and Attestation of Financial Statements by Certified Public Accountants and auditing standards. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the paragraph “CPAs’ Responsibilities for the Audit of the Parent Company-only Financial Statements”. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the Norm of Professional Ethics for Certified Public Accountant and have fulfilled our other responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. Based on our audits and the reports of other auditors, we are convinced that we have acquired enough and appropriate audit evidence to serve as the basis for our audit opinion.

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Key Audit Matters

Key audit matters refer to the most vital matters in our audit of the Company’s parent company-only financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023, based on our professional judgment. These matters are addressed in our audit of the parent company-only financial statements as a whole and in forming our audit opinion. We do not express a separate opinion on these matters.

- Inventory Valuation (including investment using the equity method subsidiary inventory)

The inventories of the Company and its subsidiaries invested using the equity method are material to the financial statements. The main raw materials in the inventories are bronze and copper. Due to the fluctuations of the international copper prices, the prices of raw material inventories may fluctuate greatly, and due to the fluctuations of the international raw material prices, the selling prices of the relevant finished goods may be impacted by the overly low raw material prices. As the amount of the allowance for inventory valuation losses is material to the financial statements, we adopted it as a key audit matter.

Our audit procedures included (but were not limited to) understanding and testing the effectiveness of the internal control system established by the management team for inventory valuation losses, assessing the reasonableness of the allowance for inventory valuation losses provided, inspecting inventories to verify the status of ending inventories, and sampling to verify the costs of inventories per unit, while for the net realizable values adopted by the management, sampling and vouching for documents related to purchases and sales to verify the correctness of the net realizable values of inventories.

We also considered the appropriateness of the disclosures in Notes 4, 5 and 6 to the financial statements related to inventories.

Other Matters – Making Reference to the Audits of Component Auditors

The financial statements of some of the investees included in the Company’s parent company-only financial statements were not audited by us, but by other auditors. Therefore, in our opinion, for the accompanying parent company-only financial statements, amounts stated in the financial statements of these associates and joint ventures accounted for under the equity method are based solely on the reports of other auditors. The investment in these investees under the equity method as of December 31, 2023 and 2022 was NTD 261,862 thousand and NTD 279,411 thousand, representing 3% and 4% of total assets, respectively. For the years then ended, the share of profit and loss of subsidiaries, affiliates, and joint ventures were NTD (16,323) thousand and NTD (13,886) thousand, representing (3)% and (1)% of the net profit before tax, respectively. The share

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of other comprehensive income of subsidiaries, affiliates, and joint ventures under the equity method was NTD (2,626) thousand and NTD (642) thousand, representing 12% and 6% of net other comprehensive income, respectively.

Responsibilities of the management and the governing body for the parent company-only financial statements

The responsibilities of the management are to prepare the parent company-only financial statements with fair presentation in accordance with the Regulations Governing the Preparation of Financial Reports by Securities Issuers and to maintain the necessary internal control associated with the preparation in order to ensure that the parent company-only financial statements are free from material misstatement arising from fraud or error.

In preparing the parent company-only financial statements, the management is responsible for assessing the Company’s ability in continuing as a going concern, disclosing relevant matters, and adopting the going concern basis of accounting, unless the management intends to liquidate the Company or cease operations, or has no viable alternatives but to liquidate or cease operations.

The Company’s governing body (including the Audit Committee) is responsible for supervising the financial reporting process.

CPAs’ responsibilities for the audit of the parent company-only financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance on whether the parent company-only financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement arising from fraud or error and to issue an independent auditors’ report. Reasonable assurance is a high-level assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with auditing standards of the Republic of China will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatement may arise from fraud or error. If the monetary amounts are misstated, either separately or in aggregate, could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of the users of the parent company-only financial statements, they are considered material.

We have exercised our professional judgment and maintained professional doubt when performing the audit work in accordance with auditing standards. We also performed the following tasks:

  1. We identified and assessed the risks of material misstatement arising from fraud or error within the parent company-only financial statements, designed and executed countermeasures in response to said risks, and obtained sufficient and appropriate audit evidence to provide a basis for our opinion. Fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control. Therefore, the risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than one resulting from error.

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  1. We learned about the internal control related to the audit in order to design appropriate audit procedures under the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control.

  2. We evaluated the appropriateness of the accounting policies adopted and the reasonableness of the accounting estimates and relevant disclosures made by the management.

  3. We made conclusions on the appropriateness of the management’s adoption of the going concern basis of accounting based on the audit evidence obtained and whether a material uncertainty exists for events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. If we are of the opinion that a material uncertainty exists, we shall remind users of the parent company-only financial statements to pay attention to relevant disclosures in said statements in our audit report. If such disclosures are inadequate, we need to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Company to cease to continue as a going concern.

  4. We evaluated the overall presentation, structure, and content of the parent company-only financial statements (including relevant notes) and whether the parent company-only financial statements adequately presented the relevant transactions and events.

  5. We are convinced that we have acquired enough and appropriate audit evidence of the financial information of entities within the Group to serve as the basis of audit opinion on the parent company-only financial statements. We are responsible for guiding, supervising, and performing the audit and forming an audit opinion on the Group.

The matters communicated between us and the governing body included the planned scope and time of the audit and significant audit findings (including any significant defects in internal control identified during the audit).

We also provided the governing body with a declaration that we have complied with the Norm of Professional Ethics for Certified Public Accountant regarding independence and communicated with it all relationships and other matters that might possibly be regarded as detrimental to our independence (including relevant protective measures).

From the matters communicated with the governing body, we determined the key audit matters for the audit of the Company’s parent company-only financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023. We have clearly indicated such matters in the auditors’ report, unless legal regulations prohibit the public disclosure of specific matters or in extremely rare cases in which we decided not to communicate specific items in the auditors’ report for it could be reasonably anticipated that the negative effects of such disclosure would be greater than the public interest it might bring forth.

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EY Taiwan

Approved by the Competent Authority to Audit/Review Publicly Listed Companies’ Financial Statements Case Audit No.: Jin-Guan-Zheng-Shen-Zi No. 1060027042 Jin-Guan-Zheng-Shen-Zi No. 1080326041

Chen Ming-Hung

Certified Public Accountant:

Huang Yu-Ting

March 14, 2024

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K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Parent Company-only Balance Sheets December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022

(Amounts in Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Unless Otherwise Specified)

Assets Assets Assets December 31, 2023 December 31, 2022
Code AccountingItem Note Amount % Amount %
1100
1110
1136
1150
1170
1180
1200
130x
1410
1470
11xx
1517
1550
1600
1755
1760
1780
1840
1900
15xx
1XXX
Current Assets
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Financial Assets at Fair Value Through Profit or Loss –
current
Financial Assets Measured at Amortized Cost – current
Net Notes Receivable
Net Accounts Receivable
Net Accounts Receivable – Related Parties
Other Receivables
Inventories
Advance Receipts
Other Current Assets
Total Current Assets
Non-current Assets
Financial Assets at Fair Value Through Other
Comprehensive Income – non-current
Investments Using the Equity Method
Property, plants and equipment
Right-of-use Assets
Net Investment Property
Intangible Assets
Deferred Tax Assets
Other Non-current Assets
Total Non-current Assets
Total Assets
4 and 6.1
4 and 6.2
4
4 and 6.15
4, 6.3, and 6.15
4, 6.3, 6.15, and 7
4, 6.4, and 8
4 and 6.5
4
4 and 6.6
4 and 6.7
4, 6.8, and 8
4, 6.16, and 7
4
4
4 and 6.20
$2,193,799
635,350
-
25,819
324,630
67,316
41,871
920,646
36,139
16,580
4,262,150
104,872
2,132,190
1,305,279
4,499
39,870
6,783
10,729
31,488
3,635,710
$7,897,860

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8

-

-

4

1

1

12

-

-

54
1

27

17

-

1

-

-

-

46
100
$1,772,345
301,236
138,381
33,255
345,957
70,973
275,091
1,181,282
27,157
7,115
4,152,792
108,083
2,373,689
1,130,882
7,452
3,941
9,250
13,380
34,088
3,680,765
$7,833,557
23
4
2
-
4
1
4
15
-
-
53
1
30
15
-
-
-
-
1
47
100

(Please see the Notes to the Parent Company-only Financial Statements.)

Chairman: Cheng Ke-Pin

Chief Accounting Officer: Tseng Yu-Chin

General Manager: Cheng Chieh-Yuan

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K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Parent Company-only Balance Sheets (Continued) December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022

(Amounts in Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Unless Otherwise Specified)

Liabilities and Equity Liabilities and Equity Liabilities and Equity December 31,2023 December 31,2023 December 31,2022 December 31,2022
Code AccountingItem Note Amount % Amount %
2100
2130
2150
2170
2180
2200
2230
2322
2399
21xx
2540
2570
2600
25xx
2xxx
31xx
3100
3110
3200
3300
3310
3320
3350
3400
3410
3420
3XX
X
Current liabilities
Short-term Borrowings
Contract Liabilities – current
Notes Payable
Accounts Payable
Accounts Payable – Related Parties
Other Payables
Current Tax Liabilities
Long-term Liabilities Due Within One Year or One
Business Cycle
Other Current Liabilities
Sub-total of Current Liabilities
Non-current Liabilities
Long-term Borrowings
Deferred Tax Liabilities
Other Non-current Liabilities
Sub-total of Non-current Liabilities
Total Liabilities
Equity Attributable to Owners of the Parent Company
Capital Stock
Common Stock
Capital Surplus
Retained Earnings
Legal Reserve
Special Reserve
Undistributed Earnings
Subtotal of Retained Earnings
Other Equity
Exchange Differences Arising on the Translation of
the Financial Statements of Foreign Operations
Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Financial Assets at Fair
Value Through Other Comprehensive Income
Subtotal of Other Equity
Total Equity
Total Liabilities and Equity
4 and 6.9
4 and 6.14
4 and 6.10
4 and 6.20
4 and 6.11
4, 6.16, and 7


4 and 6.11
4 and 6.20
4, 6.16, and 7
6.13
6.13
6.13
12
$400,000
5,154
3,629
60,871
1,535
284,530
55,201
104,116
11,706
926,742
473,282
240,184
879
714,345
1,641,087



1,556,549
27,281

803,369
114,850
3,890,871
4,809,090

(59,024)
(77,123)
(136,147)
6,256,773

$7,897,860

5

-

-

1

-

4

1
1

-

12




6

3

-

9

21





20
-


10

2

49

61


(1)
(1)


(2)

79


100

$439,800

19,210

4,148

75,269

4,260

346,539

124,604

58,606

7,626

1,080,062







402,513

301,356

3,687

707,556

1,787,618







1,556,549

27,281



723,956

205,872

3,647,131

4,576,959



(40,678)

(74,172)

(114,850)

6,045,939
$7,833,557

6

-

-

1

-

4

2

1

-

14







5

4

-

9

23







20

-



9

3

47

59



(1)

(1)
(2)

77
100

(Please see the Notes to the Parent Company-only Financial Statements.)

Chairman: Cheng Ke-Pin

General Manager: Cheng Chieh-Yuan Chief Accounting Officer: Tseng Yu-Chin

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K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Parent Company-only Statement of Comprehensive Income For the Years Ended December 31, 2023 and 2022

(Amounts in Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Unless Otherwise Specified)

Code AccountingItem Note 2023 2022
Amount % Amount %
4000
5000
5900
5910
5920
5950
6000
6100
6200
6300
6450
6900
7000
7010
7020
7050
7070
7900
7950
8200
8300
8310
8316
8349
8360
8361
8370
8399
8500
9750
9850
Operating income
Operating Costs
Operating Gross Profit
Unrealized Sales Profit and Loss
Realized Sales Profit and Loss
Net Operating Gross Profit
Operating Expenses
Selling Expenses
Administrative Expenses
Research and Development Expenses
Expected Credit Impairment Losses
Total Operating Expenses
Operating Profit
Non-operating Revenue and Expenses
Other Income
Other Gains and Losses
Financial Costs
Share of Profit or Loss of Subsidiaries, Associates, and Joint
Ventures Recognized Using the Equity Method
Total Non-operating Income and Expenses
Net Profit Before Tax
Income Tax Expenses
Current Net Profit
Other Comprehensive Income
Items That Will not be Reclassified Subsequently to Profit or
Loss
Investments in Equity Instruments at Fair Value Through
Other Comprehensive Income
Unrealized Valuation Gain or Loss
Income Tax Related to Items not Reclassified
Items That May be Reclassified Subsequently to Profit or Loss
Exchange Differences Arising on the Translation of the
Financial Statements of Foreign Operations
Share of Other Comprehensive Income of Associates and
Joint Ventures Recognized Using the Equity Method
- Items That May be Reclassified Subsequently to Profit or
Loss
Income Tax Related to Items That May be Reclassified
Other Comprehensive Income in the Current Period (net of tax)
Total Comprehensive Income in the Current Period
Earnings per Share
Basic Earnings per Share (NTD)
Diluted Earnings per Share (NTD)
4, 6.14, and 7
6.5, 6.17, and 7
6.17 and 7
6.15
4 and 6.18
6.18
6.18
4 and 6.7
4 and 6.20
6.19 and 6.20
4 and 6.21
$2,714,903
(1,944,684)
770,219
(23,147)
38,702
785,774
(153,710)
(131,902)
(107,093)
(78)
(392,783)
392,991
59,624
22,653
(12,789)
178,832
248,320
641,311
(97,870)
543,441
(3,211)
260
(19,650)
(2,626)
3,930
(21,297)
$522,144
$3.49
$3.48

100

(72)

28

(1)

2

29


(6)

(5)

(3)

-

(14)

15


2

1

-

6

9

24

(4)

20




-

-


(1)

-

-

(1)


19





$3,155,889
(2,172,140)
983,749
(38,702)
42,931
987,978
(161,384)
(150,778)
(112,219)
(6)
(424,387)
563,591
62,712
168,849
(13,100)
327,892
546,353
1,109,944
(214,558)
895,386

(38,607)
797
35,270
(642)
(7,054)
(10,236)
$885,150
$5.75
$5.73
100
(69)
31
(1)
1
31
(5)
(5)
(3)
-
(13)
18
2
5
-
10
17
35
(7)

28


(1)

-

1

-
-
-

28


(Please see the Notes to the Parent Company-only Financial Statements.)

Chairman: Cheng Ke-Pin

General Manager: Cheng Chieh-Yuan Chief Accounting Officer: Tseng Yu-Chin

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K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Parent Company-only Statement of Changes in Equity For the Years Ended December 31, 2023 and 2022

(Amounts in Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Unless Otherwise Specified)

Item Common stock Capital Surplus Retained Earnings Other EquityInterest Items Other EquityInterest Items Total Equity
Legal Reserve Special Reserve Undistributed
Earnings
Exchange Differences
Arising on the Translation
of the Financial
Statements of Foreign
Operations
Unrealized Gain (Loss)
on Financial Assets at
Fair Value Through
Other Comprehensive
Income
Code 3110 3200 3310 3320 3350 3410 3420 3xxx
A1
B1
B5
B17
C15
D1
D3
D5
Q1
Z1
A1
B1
B5
B17
D1
D3
D5
Z1
Balance as of January 1, 2022
Earnings Distribution in 2021
Set aside as Legal Reserve
Cash Dividends on Ordinary Shares
Reversed Special Reserve
Cash Dividends Distributed From
Capital Surplus
Net Profit for 2022
Other Comprehensive Income for 2022
Total Comprehensive Income in the
Current Period
Disposal of Equity Instruments at Fair
Value Through Other Comprehensive
Income
Balance as of December 31, 2022
Balance as of January 1, 2023
Earnings Distribution in 2022
Set aside as Legal Reserve
Cash Dividends on Ordinary Shares
Reversed Special Reserve
Net Profit for 2023
Other Comprehensive Income for 2023
Total Comprehensive Income in the
Current Period
Balance as of December 31, 2023
$1,556,549


-
$1,556,549
$1,556,549


-
$1,556,549
$73,977
(46,696)

-
$27,281
$27,281

-
$27,281
$646,457
77,499


-
$723,956
$723,956
79,413

-
$803,369
$256,026
(50,154)

-
$205,872
$205,872

(91,022)

-
$114,850
$3,144,961
(77,499)
(264,614)
50,154
895,386

895,386
(101,257)
$3,647,131
$3,647,131
(79,413)
(311,310)

91,022
543,441

543,441
$3,890,871
$(68,252)
27,574

27,574

$(40,678)
$(40,678)




(18,346)

(18,346)
$(59,024)
$(137,619)
(37,810)

(37,810)
101,257
$(74,172)
$(74,172)
(2,951)

(2,951)
$(77,123)
$5,472,099
-
(264,614)
-
(46,696)
895,386
(10,236)

885,150

-
$6,045,939
$6,045,939
-
(311,310)
-
543,441
(21,297)

522,144
$6,256,773

(Please see the Notes to the Parent Company-only Financial Statements.)

Chairman: Cheng Ke-Pin

General Manager: Cheng Chieh-Yuan

Chief Accounting Officer: Tseng Yu-Chin

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K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Parent Company-only Statement of Cash Flows

For the Years Ended December 31, 2023 and 2022

(Amounts in Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Unless Otherwise Specified)

Code Item 2023 2022 Code Item 2023 2022
AAAA
A10000
A20000
A20010
A20100
A20200
A20300
A20400
A20900
A21200
A21300
A22400
A22500
A23100
A23900
A24000
A29900
A30000
A31110
A31130
A31150
A31160
A31180
A31200
A31230
A31240
A32125
A32130
A32150
A32160
A32180
A32230
A33000
A33100
A33200
A33500
AAAA
Cash Flow from Operating Activities:
Net Profit Before Tax for This Period
Adjustments:
Income and Expenses:
Depreciation Expenses
Amortization Expenses
Expected Credit Impairment Losses
Net Loss (Gain) on Financial Assets and Liabilities at Fair Value Through Profit
or Loss
Interest Expenses
Interest Income
Dividend Income
Share of Profit of Subsidiaries, Associates, and Joint Ventures Recognized
Using the Equity Method
Gain on Disposal and Scrapping of Property, Plants and Equipment
Loss (Gain) on Disposal of Investment
Unrealized Sales Profit
Realized Sales Profit
Valuation Losses
Changes in Current Assets/Liabilities Related to Operating Activities:
Increase in Financial Assets at Fair Value Through Profit or Loss – current
Decrease in Notes Receivable
Decrease in Accounts Receivable
Decrease (Increase) in Accounts Receivable – Related Parties
Decrease (Increase) in Other Receivables
Decrease in Inventory
Decrease (Increase) in Prepayments
Decrease (Increase) in Other Current Assets
Increase (Decrease) in Contract Liabilities
Decrease in Notes Payable
Decrease in Accounts Payable
(Decrease) Increase in Accounts Payable – Related Parties
Decrease in Other Payables
Increase in Other Current Liabilities
Cash Inflow From Operations
Interest Received
Dividends Received
Income Tax Paid
Net cash inflow from operating activities
$641,311
84,247
3,143
78
(15,326)
12,789
(38,540)
(2,162)
(178,832)
(103)
2,550
23,147
(38,702)
544
(321,338)
7,436
21,249
3,657
(3,136)
260,092
(8,982)
2,236
(14,056)
(519)
(14,398)
(2,725)
(60,040)
3,568
367,188
40,583
2,162
(233,305)
176,628
$1,109,944



83,207

3,233

6


32,260

13,100

(17,975)
(4,320)

(327,892)
(135)
(3,636)
38,702
(42,931)
7,543


(105,789)
9,586

152,020

(19,412)
10,831

330,551
17,188
(912)
7,926

(4,014)
(24,448)
4,245
(21,077)
128
1,247,929
15,389
4,320
(220,374)
1,047,264
BBBB
B00010
B00020
B00060
B01800
B02400
B02700
B02800
B04100
B04500
B05400
B06700
B07600
BBBB
CCCC
C00100
C00200
C01600
C01700
C04020
C04300
C04500
C05600
CCCC
EEEE
E00100
E00200
Cash Flow from Investing Activities:
Acquisition of Financial Assets at Fair Value Through Other
Comprehensive Income
Disposal of Financial Assets at Fair Value Through Other
Comprehensive Income
Decrease (Increase) in Financial Assets Measured at Amortized Cost
Acquisition of Investments Using the Equity Method
Proceeds from Capital Decrease of Investments Using the Equity
Method
Acquisition of Property, Plants and Equipment
Disposal of Property, Plants and Equipment
Decrease in Other Receivables
Acquisition of Intangible Assets
Acquisition of Investment Property
Increase in Other Non-current Assets
Dividends Received
Net Cash Inflow From Investing Activities
Cash Flow from Financing Activities:
Increase in Short-term Loans
Decrease in Short-term Borrowings
Long-term Borrowings
Repayments of Long-term Borrowings
Lease Principal Repaid
Increase in Other Non-current Liabilities
Payout of Cash Dividends
Interest Paid
Net Cash Outflow From Financing Activities
Increase in Current Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and Cash Equivalents at the Beginning of the Period
Cash and Cash Equivalents at the End of the Period
-
-
138,381
(27,122)
-
(165,212)
377
234,313
(676)
(38,392)
(85,671)
440,732
496,730
1,475,000
(1,514,800)
176,274
(59,995)
(4,969)
663
(311,310)
(12,767)
(251,904)
421,454
1,772,345
$2,193,799
(170,720)
451,551
(83,062)

(459,951)
166,012

(117,800)
135
259,641

(4,224)

-

(26,920)
381,320
395,982
2,709,200

(3,459,200)
106,000

(52,856)

(5,079)
-

(311,310)
(12,992)

(1,026,237)
417,009
1,355,336
$1,772,345

Chairman: Cheng Ke-Pin

(Please see the Notes to the Parent Company-only Financial Statements.) General Manager: Cheng Chieh-Yuan

Chief Accounting Officer: Tseng Yu-Chin

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CPAs’ Audit Report

To K.S. TERMINALS INC.,

Audit Opinions

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of K.S. TERMINALS INC., (the “Company”) and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Group”) for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 and the relevant consolidated statements of comprehensive income, changes in equity and cash flows for the years then ended, and relevant notes, including a summary of significant accounting policies (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”).

In our opinion, based on our audits and the reports of other auditors (please refer to the Other Matters section of our report), the accompanying consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Group as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, and its consolidated financial performance and consolidated cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with the Regulations Governing the Preparation of Financial Reports by Securities Issuers, the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), International Accounting Standards (IAS), IFRIC Interpretations (IFRIC), and SIC Interpretations (SIC) endorsed and issued into effect by the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) of the Republic of China.

Basis for Audit Opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with the Regulations Governing the Auditing and Attestation of Financial Statements by Certified Public Accountants and auditing standards. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the paragraph “CPAs’ Responsibilities for the Audit of the Consolidated Financial Statements”. We are independent of the Group in accordance with the Norm of Professional Ethics for Certified Public Accountant of the Republic of China and have fulfilled our other responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. Based on our audits and the reports of other auditors, we are convinced that we have acquired enough and appropriate audit evidence to serve as the basis for our audit opinion.

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Key Audit Matters

Key audit matters refer to the most vital matters in our audit of the Group’ consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023, based on our professional judgment. These matters are addressed in our audit of the consolidated financial statements as a whole and in forming our audit opinion. We do not express a separate opinion on these matters.

Inventory Valuation

As of December 31, 2023, the Group’s net inventories amounted to NTD 1,430,741 thousand, accounting for 17% of the consolidated total assets, which was material to the financial statements. The main raw materials in the inventories are bronze and copper. Due to the fluctuations of the international copper prices, the prices of raw material inventories may fluctuate greatly, and due to the fluctuations of the international raw material prices, the selling prices of the relevant finished goods may be impacted by the overly low raw material prices. As the amount of the allowance for inventory valuation losses is material to the financial statements, we adopted it as a key audit matter.

Our audit procedures included (but were not limited to) understanding and testing the effectiveness of the internal control system established by the management team for inventory valuation losses, assessing the reasonableness of the allowance for inventory valuation losses provided, inspecting inventories to verify the status of ending inventories, and sampling to verify the costs of inventories per unit, while for the net realizable values adopted by the management, sampling and vouching for documents related to purchases and sales to verify the correctness of the net realizable values of inventories.

We also considered the appropriateness of the disclosures in Notes 4, 5 and 6 to the financial statements related to inventories.

Other Matters – Making Reference to the Audits of Component Auditors

The financial statements of some of the investees included in the Group’s consolidated financial statements were not audited by us, but by other auditors. Therefore, in our opinion for the accompanying consolidated financial statements, amounts stated in the financial statements of these associates and joint ventures accounted for under the equity method are based solely on the reports of other auditors. The investment in these invested companies under the equity method on December 31, 2023 and 2022 was NTD 261,862 thousand and NTD 279,411 thousand, respectively, accounting for 3% and 3% of the consolidated total assets from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2022 and January 1 to December 31, 2022 respectively. The share of profit and loss of the affiliated company and joint venture of the subsidiaries

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recognized by the equity method was NTD (16,323) thousand and NTD (13,886) thousand, respectively, accounting for (2)% and (1)% of the net profit before tax, and was accounted for under the equity method. The share of other comprehensive income of the affiliated companies and joint ventures of the subsidiaries was NTD (2,626) thousand and NTD (642) thousand, accounting for 13% and 9% of other comprehensive income, respectively.

Responsibilities of the management and the governing body for the consolidated financial statements

The responsibilities of the management are to prepare the consolidated financial statements with fair presentation in accordance with the Regulations Governing the Preparation of Financial Reports by Securities Issuers and the IFRSs endorsed and issued into effect by the FSC and to maintain the necessary internal control associated with the preparation in order to ensure that the consolidated financial statements are free from material misstatement arising from fraud or error.

In preparing the consolidated financial statements, the management is responsible for assessing the Group’s ability in continuing as a going concern, disclosing relevant matters, and adopting the going concern basis of accounting, unless the management intends to liquidate the Group or cease operations, or has no viable alternatives but to liquidate or cease operations.

The Group’s governing body (including the Audit Committee) is responsible for supervising the financial reporting process.

CPAs’ responsibilities for the audit of the consolidated financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance on whether the consolidated financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement arising from fraud or error and to issue an independent auditors’ report. Reasonable assurance is a high-level assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with auditing standards of the Republic of China will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatement may arise from fraud or error. If the monetary amounts are misstated, either separately or in aggregate, could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of the users of the consolidated financial statements, they are considered material.

We have exercised our professional judgment and maintained professional doubt when performing the audit work in accordance with auditing standards. We also performed the following tasks:

  1. We identified and assessed the risks of material misstatement arising from fraud or error within the consolidated financial statements, designed and executed countermeasures in response to said risks, and obtained sufficient and appropriate audit evidence to provide a basis for our opinion. Fraud

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may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control. Therefore, the risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than one resulting from error.

  1. We learned about the internal control related to the audit in order to design appropriate audit procedures under the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Group’s internal control.

  2. We evaluated the appropriateness of the accounting policies adopted and the reasonableness of the accounting estimates and relevant disclosures made by the management.

  3. We made conclusions on the appropriateness of the management’s adoption of the going concern basis of accounting based on the audit evidence obtained and whether a material uncertainty exists for events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Group’s ability to continue as a going concern. If we are of the opinion that a material uncertainty exists, we shall remind users of the consolidated financial statements to pay attention to relevant disclosures in said statements in our audit report. If such disclosures are inadequate, we need to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditions may cause the Group to cease to continue as a going concern.

  4. We evaluated the overall presentation, structure, and content of the consolidated financial statements (including relevant notes) and whether the consolidated financial statements adequately presented the relevant transactions and events.

  5. We are convinced that we have acquired enough and appropriate audit evidence of the financial information of entities within the Group to serve as the basis of an audit opinion on the consolidated financial statements. We are responsible for guiding, supervising, and performing the audit and forming an audit opinion on the Group.

The matters communicated between us and the governing body included the planned scope and time of the audit and significant audit findings (including any significant defects in internal control identified during the audit).

We also provided the governing body with a declaration that we have complied with the Norm of Professional Ethics for Certified Public Accountant regarding independence and communicated with it all relationships and other matters that might possibly be regarded as detrimental to our independence (including relevant protective

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measures).

From the matters communicated with the governing body, we determined the key audit matters for the audit of the Group’s consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023. We have clearly indicated such matters in the auditors’ report, unless legal regulations prohibit the public disclosure of specific matters or in extremely rare cases in which we decided not to communicate specific items in the auditors’ report for it could be reasonably anticipated that the negative effects of such disclosure would be greater than the public interest it might bring forth.

Others

The Company has also prepared the parent company-only financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, for which we have issued an unqualified opinion, alongside the audit report including an Other Matters section.

EY Taiwan

Approved by the Competent Authority to Audit/Review Publicly Listed Companies’ Financial Statements

Case Audit No.: Jin-Guan-Zheng-Shen-Zi No. 1060027042 Jin-Guan-Zheng-Shen-Zi No. 1080326041

Chen Ming-Hung

Certified Public Accountant:

Huang Yu-Ting

March 14, 2024

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K.S. TERMINALS INC. and Its Subsidiaries

Consolidated Balance Sheets

December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022

(Amounts in Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars,Unless (Amounts in Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars,Unless (Amounts in Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars,Unless Otherwise Specified) Otherwise Specified) Otherwise Specified)
Assets December 31,2023 December 31,2022
Code AccountingItem Note Amount % Amount %
1100
1110
1136
1150
1170
1200
130x
1410
1470
11xx
1517
1550
1600
1755
1760
1780
1840
1900
15xx
1XXX
Current Assets
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Financial Assets at Fair Value Through Profit or Loss – current
Financial Assets at Amortized Cost
Net Notes Receivable
Net Accounts Receivable
Other Receivables
Inventories
Advance Receipts
Other Current Assets
Total Current Assets
Non-current Assets
Financial Assets at Fair Value Through Other Comprehensive
Income – non-current
Investments Using the Equity Method
Property, plants and equipment
Right-of-use Assets
Investment Property
Intangible Assets
Deferred Tax Assets
Other Non-current Assets
Total Non-current Assets
Total assets
4 and 6.1
4 and 6.2
4
4 and 6.15
4, 6.3, and 6.15
4, 6.4, and 8
4 and 6.5
4

4 and 6.6
4 and 6.7
4, 6.8, and 8
4, 6.16, and 7
4
4
4 and 6.20
$2,982,979
635,350
-
257,981
643,156
44,319
1,430,741
58,933
58,707
6,112,166
104,872
261,862
1,536,487
14,545
45,247
7,673
16,809
42,124
2,029,619
$8,141,785
37
8
-
3
8
-
17
1
1
75
1
3
19
-
1
-
-
1
25
100
$2,513,312
415,324
138,381
197,724
766,693
276,872
1,767,889
41,513
36,672
6,154,380
108,083
279,411
1,364,670
19,434
9,750
10,668
23,350
45,121
1,860,487
$8,014,867
31
5
2
3
10
3
22
1
-
77
1
4
17
-
-
-
-
1
23
100

(Please see Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.)

Chairman: Cheng Ke-Pin

General Manager: Cheng Chieh-Yuan

Chief Accounting Officer: Tseng Yu-Chin

27

K.S. TERMINALS INC. and Its Subsidiaries

Consolidated Balance Sheets (Continued)

December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022

(Amounts in Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Unless Otherwise Specified)

Liabilities and Equity Liabilities and Equity Liabilities and Equity December 31,2023 December 31,2023 December 31,2022 December 31,2022
Code AccountingItem Note Amount % Amount %
2100
2130
2150
2170
2200
2230
2322
2399
21XX
2540
2570
2600
25XX
2XXX
31XX
3100
3110
3200
3300
3310
3320
3350
3400
3410
3420
31XX
36xx
3xxx
Current liabilities
Short-term Borrowings
Contract Liabilities – current
Notes Payable
Accounts Payable
Other Payables
Current Tax Liabilities
Long-term Liabilities Due Within One Year or One Business
Cycle
Other Current Liabilities
Sub-total of Current Liabilities
Non-current Liabilities
Long-term Borrowings
Deferred Tax Liabilities
Other Non-current Liabilities
Sub-total of Non-current Liabilities
Total Liabilities
Equity Attributable to Owners of the Parent Company
Capital Stock
Common stock
Capital Surplus
Retained Earnings
Legal Reserve
Special Reserve
Undistributed Earnings
Subtotal of Retained Earnings
Other Equity
Exchange Differences Arising on the Translation of the
Financial Statements of Foreign Operations
Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Financial Assets at Fair Value
Through Other Comprehensive Income
Subtotal of Other Equity
Total Equity Attributable to Owners of the Parent Company
Non-controlling Interests
Total Equity
Total Liabilities and Equity
4 and 6.9
4 and 6.14
4 and 6.10
4 and 6.20
4 and 6.11
4, 6.16, and 7
4 and 6.11
4 and 6.20
4, 6.16, and 7
6.13
6.13
6.13
12
6.13
$401,408
12,541
3,629
142,288
358,854
80,817
104,116
15,136
1,118,789
473,282
240,184
2,269
715,735
1,834,524
1,556,549
27,281
803,369
114,850
3,890,871
4,809,090
(59,024)
(77,123)
(136,147)
6,256,773
50,488
6,307,261
$8,141,785

5
-
-
2
5
1
1
-
14


6
3
-
9
23



19
-

10
1
48
59

(1)
(1)
(2)
76
1
77
100

$441,194

28,984
4,148
104,754
402,946
161,336
58,606
12,374
1,214,342
402,513
301,356
6,316
710,185
1,924,527
1,556,549
27,281
723,956
205,872
3,647,131
4,576,959
(40,678)
(74,172)
(114,850)

6,045,939
44,401

6,090,340

$8,014,867
6
-
-
1
5
2
1
-
15
5
4
-
9
24
19
-
9
3
45
57
-
(1)
(1)
75
1
76
100

(Please see Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.)

Chairman: Cheng Ke-Pin

General Manager: Cheng Chieh-Yuan

Chief Accounting Officer: Tseng Yu-Chin

28

K.S. TERMINALS INC. and Its Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income

For the Years Ended December 31, 2023 and 2022

(Amounts in Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Unless Otherwise Specified)

Code Item Note 2023 2023 2022
Amount % Amount %
4000
5000
5900
6000
6100
6200
6300
6450
6900
7000
7010
7020
7050
7060
7900
7950
8200
8300
8310
8316
8349
8360
8361
8370
8399
8300
8500
8600
8610
8620
8700
8710
8720
9750
9850
Operating income
Operating Costs
Operating Gross Profit
Operating Expenses
Selling Expenses
Administrative Expenses
Research and Development Expenses
Expected Credit Impairment Losses
Total Operating Expenses
Operating Profit
Non-operating Revenue and Expenses
Other Income
Other Gains and Losses
Financial Costs
Share of Profit or Loss of Associates and Joint Ventures
Recognized Using the Equity Method
Total Non-operating Income and Expenses
Net Profit Before Tax
Income Tax Expenses
Current Net Profit
Other Comprehensive Income
Items That Will not be Reclassified Subsequently to Profit or
Loss
Unrealized Gain (Loss) From Investments in Equity
Instruments Measured at Fair Value Through Other
Income Tax Related to Items not Reclassified
Items That May be Reclassified Subsequently to Profit or
Loss
Exchange Differences Arising on the Translation of the
Financial Statements of Foreign Operations
Share of Other Comprehensive Income of Associates and
Joint Ventures Recognized Using the Equity
Method-May be Reclassified to Profit or Loss Items
Classified to Profit or Loss
Income Tax Related to Items That May be Reclassified to
Profit or Loss
Other Comprehensive Income in the Current Period (net of tax)
Total Comprehensive Income in the Current Period
Net Profit Attributable To:
Owners of Parent
Non-controlling Interests
Comprehensive Income Attributable To:
Owners of Parent
Non-controlling Interests
Earnings per Share
Basic Earnings per Share (NTD)
Diluted Earnings per Share (NTD)
4 and 6.14
6.5 and 6.17
6.17 and 7
6.15
4 and 6.18
6.18
6.18 and 7
4 and 6.7
4 and 6.20
4 and 6.14
6.19 and 6.20
4 and 6.21
$4,169,674
(2,888,105)
1,281,569
(275,840)
(187,038)
(129,399)
(78)
(592,355)
689,214
88,848
21,070
(12,874)
(16,323)
80,721
769,935
(220,832)
549,103
(3,211)
260
(19,225)
(2,626)
3,930
(20,872)
$528,231
$543,441
5,662
$549,103
$522,144
6,087
$528,231
$3.49
$3.48
100
(69)
31
(7)
(5)
(3)
-
(15)
16
2
-
-
-
2
18
(5)
13

-
-

-
-
-
-
13
$4,845,515
(3,240,321)
1,605,194
(291,963)
(204,014)
(125,148)
(674)
(621,799)
983,395
73,239
222,501
(13,179)
(13,886)
268,675
1,252,070
(350,177)
901,893


(38,607)
797


38,498

(642)

(7,054)
(7,008)
$894,885
$895,386
6,507
$901,893
$885,150
9,735
$894,885
$5.75
$5.73
100
(67)
33
(6)
(4)
(3)
-
(13)
20
1
5
-
-
6
26
(7)
19
(1)
-
-
-
-
(1)
18

(Please see Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.)

General Manager: Cheng Chieh-Yuan

Chief Accounting Officer: Tseng Yu-Chin

Chairman: Cheng Ke-Pin

29

K.S. TERMINALS INC. and Its Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity

For the Years Ended December 31, 2023 and 2022

(Amounts in Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Unless Otherwise Specified)

Item EquityAttributable t EquityAttributable t o Owners of the Parent Company o Owners of the Parent Company o Owners of the Parent Company o Owners of the Parent Company o Owners of the Parent Company Non-controllin
g Interests
Total Equity
Common
stock
Capital Surplus Retained Earnings Other Equity Interest Items Total
Legal Reserve Special Reserve Undistributed
Earnings
Exchange
Differences
Arising on the
Translation of
the Financial
Unrealized Gain (Loss)
on Financial Assets at
Fair Value Through
Other Comprehensive
Income
Code 3110 3200 3310 3320 3350 3410 3420 31XX 36XX 3XXX
A1
B1
B5
B17
C15
D1
D3
D5
Q1
O1
Z1
A1
B1
B5
B17
D1
D3
D5
Z1
Balance as of January 1, 2022
Earnings Distribution in 2021
Set aside as Legal Reserve
Cash Dividends on Ordinary
Shares
Reversed Special Reserve
Cash Dividends Distributed From
Capital Surplus
Net Profit for 2022
Other Comprehensive Income for
2022
Total Comprehensive Income in the
Current Period
Disposal of Equity Instruments at
Fair Value Through Other
Comprehensive Income
Changes in Non-controlling Interest
Balance as of December 31, 2022
Balance as of January 1, 2023
Earnings Distribution in 2022
Set aside as Legal Reserve
Cash Dividends on Ordinary
Shares
Reversed Special Reserve
Net Profit for 2023
Other Comprehensive Income for
2023
Total Comprehensive Income in the
Current Period
Balance as of December 31, 2023
$1,556,549
-
$1,556,549
$1,556,549
-
$1,556,549
$73,977
(46,696)
-
$27,281
$27,281
-
$27,281
$646,457
77,499
-
$723,956
$723,956
79,413
-
$803,369
$256,026
(50,154)
-
$205,872
$205,872
(91,022)
-
$114,850
$3,144,961
(77,499)
(264,614)
50,154
895,386
895,386

(101,257)
$3,647,131
$3,647,131
(79,413)
(311,310)
91,022
543,441
543,441
$3,890,871
$(68,252)
27,574

27,574

$(40,678)
$(40,678)




(18,346)

(18,346)

$(59,024)
$(137,619)
(37,810)
(37,810)
101,257
$(74,172)
$(74,172)
(2,951)
(2,951)
$(77,123)
$5,472,099
-
(264,614)
-
(46,696)
895,386
(10,236)
885,150
-
$6,045,939
$6,045,939
-
(311,310)
-
543,441
(21,297)
522,144
$6,256,773
$38,360


6,507
3,228
9,735

(3,694)
$44,401
$44,401
5,662
425
6,087
$50,488
$5,510,459
-

(264,614)
-

(46,696)
901,893

(7,008)

894,885

-

(3,694)
$6,090,340
$6,090,340
-
(311,310)
-

549,103

(20,872)

528,231

$6,307,261

(Please see Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.)

Chairman: Cheng Ke-Pin

General Manager: Cheng Chieh-Yuan

Chief Accounting Officer: Tseng Yu-Chin

30

K.S. TERMINALS INC. and Its Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

For the Years Ended December 31, 2023 and 2022

(Amounts in Thousands of New Taiwan Dollars, Unless Otherwise Specified)

Code Item 2023 2022 Code Item 2023 2022
AAAA
A10000
A20000
A20010
A20100
A20200
A20300
A20400
A20900
A21200
A21300
A22300
A22500
A23100
A29900
30000
A31115
A31130
A31150
A31180
A31200
A31230
A31240
A32125
A32130
A32150
A32180
A32230
A33000
A33100
A33200
A33500
AAAA
Cash Flow from Operating Activities:
Net Profit Before Tax for This Period
Adjustments:
Income and Expenses:
Depreciation Expenses
Amortizations
Expected Credit Impairment Losses
Net (Gain) Loss on Financial Assets at Fair Value Through Profit
L
Interest Expenses
Interest Income
Dividend Income
Share of Loss of Associates and Joint Ventures Recognized Using the
Equity Method
Net Gain on Disposal of Property, Plants and Equipment
Loss (Gain) on Disposal of Investment
Valuation Losses
Changes in Current Assets/Liabilities Related to Operating Activities:
Increase in Financial Assets at Fair Value Through Profit or Loss
t
Increase in Notes Receivable
Decrease in Accounts Receivable
Decrease (Increase) in Other Receivables
Decrease in Inventory
Decrease (Increase) in Prepayments
Decrease (Increase) in Other Current Assets
Increase (Decrease) in Contract Liabilities
Decrease in Notes Payable
Increase (Decrease) in Accounts Payable
Decrease in Other Payables
Increase in Other Current Liabilities
Cash Inflow From Operations
Interest Received
Dividends Received
Income Tax Paid
Net Cash Inflow From Operating Activities
$769,935
112,266
4,826
78
(15,326)
12,874
(64,397)
(2,162)
16,323
(103)
2,550
918
(207,515)
(64,560)
117,419
(3,746)
326,246
(17,885)
(2,935)
(16,318)
(519)
40,396
(40,208)
2,321
970,478
66,381
2,162
(370,384)
668,637
$1,252,070
110,921
6,820
674
32,260
13,179
(26,636)
(4,320)
13,886
(574)
(3,636)
7,543
(220,181)
(246)
119,553
11,279
501,660
21,165
2,284
513
(4,014)
(119,728)
(46,402)
981
1,669,051
22,641
4,320
(329,190)
1,366,822
BBBB
B00010
B00020
B00060
B01800
B02400
B02700
B02800
B04100
B04500
B05400
B06700
BBBB
CCCC
C00100
C00200
C01600
C01700
C04020
C04400
C04500
C05600
C05800
CCCC
DDDD
EEEE
E00100
E00200
Cash Flow from Investing Activities:
Acquisition of Financial Assets at Fair Value Through Other
Comprehensive Income
Disposal of Financial Assets at Fair Value Through Other
Comprehensive Income
Decrease (Increase) in Financial Assets Measured at
Amortized Cost
Acquisition of Investments Using the Equity Method
Proceeds from Capital Decrease of Investments Using the
Equity Method
Acquisition of Property, Plants and Equipment
Disposal of Property, Plants and Equipment
Other Receivables – Decrease in Restricted Assets
Acquisition of Intangible Assets
Acquisition of Investment Property
Increase in Other Non-current Assets
Net Cash Flow From (used in) Investing Activities
Cash Flow from Financing Activities:
Increase in Short-term Loans
Decrease in Short-term Borrowings
Long-term Borrowings
Repayments of Long-term Borrowings
Lease Principal Repaid
Increase in Other Non-current Liabilities
Payout of Cash Dividends
Interest Paid
Changes in Non-controlling Interest
Net Cash Outflow From Financing Activities
Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Cash and Cash
Equivalents
Increase in Current Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and Cash Equivalents at the Beginning of the Period
Cash and Cash Equivalents at the End of the Period
-
-
138,381
(1,400)
-
(186,446)
377
234,313
(1,849)
(38,392)
(89,394)
55,590
1,477,809
(1,517,609)
176,274
(59,995)
(6,034)
663
(311,310)
(12,852)
-
(253,054)
(1,506)
469,667
2,513,312
$2,982,979
(170,720)
451,551
(83,062)
(459,951)
166,012
(130,300)
589
259,641
(5,609)
-
(39,817)
(11,666)
2,709,200
(3,459,200)
106,000
(52,856)
(6,131)
-
(311,310)
(13,071)
(3,694)
(1,031,062)
7,113
331,207
2,182,105
$2,513,312

(Please see Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.) General Manager: Cheng Chieh-Yuan

Chairman: Cheng Ke-Pin

Chief Accounting Officer: Tseng

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[Attachment 4]

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Statement of Earnings Distribution

2023

Unit: NTD

Item Amount
Unappropriated Retained Earnings at
the Beginningof the Period
3,347,430,324
Net Profit After Tax for the Year 543,440,520
Subtotal 3,890,870,844
Provision Items:
Less: Those (10%) Set Aside as Legal
Reserve
(54,344,052)
Less: Those Set Aside as Special
Reserve in Accordance with Law
(21,297,439)
Subtotal of Distributable Earnings for
the Year
3,815,229,353
Distribution Items
Shareholder Bonus in Cash (233,482,335)
Unappropriated Earnings at the End of
the Period
3,581,747,018
Note 1: Distribution of earnings will give priority to the 2023 earnings
(The number of shares outstanding as of March 14, 2024 was
155,654,890).

Chairman: Cheng Ke-Pin

General Manager: Cheng Chieh-Yuan

Chief Accounting Officer: Tseng Yu-Chin

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[Attachment 5]

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Comparison Table of Amendments to Certain Provisions of the “Corporate Social Responsibility Best-Practice Principles”

Amended Provisions Current Provisions Remarks/Description Name: “Sustainable Development Name: “Corporate Social Change of the Best-Practice Principles” Responsibility Best-Practice Principles” principles’ title Chapter I General Provisions Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 Article 1 In order to fulfill the corporate In order to accomplish the social responsibility and promote corporate social responsibility and economic, environmental and social promote the balance and sustainable advancement so as to achieve the goal development of the economy, of sustainable development, K.S. society, and environment, K.S. TERMINALS INC. (hereinafter TERMINALS INC. (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”) has referred to as the “Company”) has established the Sustainable established the Sustainable Development Best-Practice Principles Development Best-Practice (hereinafter referred to as the Principles (hereinafter referred to as Principles) by reference to the the Principles) by reference to the “Sustainable Development “Corporate Social Responsibility Best-Practice Principles for Best-Practice Principles for TWSE/TPEx Listed Companies” and TWSE/GTSM-Listed Companies” related laws and regulations and related laws and regulations promulgated by the competent promulgated by the competent authority to manage its risks and authority for compliance. impacts on the economy, environment, and society. Article 2 Article 2 The scope of the Principles The scope of the Principles covers the overall business activities covers the overall business of the Company and its group activities of the Company and its companies. group affiliates. While engaging in business While engaging in business operations, the Company shall operations, the Company shall actively implement sustainable actively implement the corporate development to conform with social responsibility to conform international development trends, and with the international trend to through corporate citizenship, balance the environment, society, enhance its contribution to the and corporate governance national economy, improve the development, and through corporate quality of life of employees, the citizenship, enhance its contribution community, and society, and boost its to the national economy, improve sustainable development-based the quality of life of employees, the competitive edge. community, and society, and boost its corporate responsibility-based competitive edge.

33

Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Current Provisions Current Provisions Remarks/Description
Article 3 Article 3
In In
fulfilling
the

social responsibility,the
operating activities.
Article 4
The Company shall implement
sustainable development based on the
following principles:
I.
Implementing
corporate
governance.
II. Developing
a
sustainable
environment.
III. Maintaining social welfare.
IV. Enhancing the disclosure of
corporate
sustainable
developmentinformation.
Article 4
The
sustainable development implementation of the

following principles:

social responsibility

I.

Implementing
governance.
II. Developing
a
environment.
III.
IV.
corporate
Article 5
The Company shall establish
sustainable
development
policies,
systems, or relevant management
guidelines and concrete promotion
plans, with the relevance between the
development trend of domestic and
foreignsustainability issuesand the
Company’s core business, and the
impact of the Company’s and its
group companies’ overall operating
activities on stakeholders, etc. taken
into account,and report them to the
shareholders’meeting after they are
approved by the Board of Directors.
When shareholders put forward
proposals
involving
sustainable
development,the Board of Directors
Article 5
The Company shall establish
corporate
social
responsibility
policies,
systems,
or
relevant
management
guidelines
and
concrete promotion plans, with the
relevance between the development
trend of domestic and foreign
corporate
social
responsibility
issues and the Company’s core
business, and the impact of the
Company’s
and
its
group
companies’
overall
operating
activities on stakeholders, etc.,
taken into account.
When
shareholders
put
forward
proposals
involving
corporate social responsibility,the

34

Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Current Provisions Current Provisions Remarks/Description
shall consider including them in the
shareholders’ meeting agenda.
Board of Directors shall consider
including them in the shareholders’
meetingagenda.
Chapter
II
Implementation
of
Governance in the Company
Article 6
The Company shall establish an
effective governance structure and
relevant
ethical
standards
in
accordance
with
the
Corporate
Governance Best-Practice Principles,
the Company’s Ethical Corporate
Management
Best-Practice
Principles, and the Code of Ethical
Conductto improve governance in
the Company.
Chapter
II
Implementation
of
Corporate Governance
Article 6
The Company shall establish
an effective governance structure
and relevant ethical standards in
accordance withrelated domestic
laws and regulationsto improve
corporate governance.
Article 7
The Company’s directors shall
exercise
due
care
as
good
administrators in urging the Company
to
implement
sustainable
development,and shall review the
effectiveness of such implementation
and make continual improvements to
ensure
the
implementation
of
sustainable development policies.
In the Company’spromotion of
sustainable development goals,the
Board of Directors of the Company
shall take into full consideration the
interests of stakeholders and
and include the following:
I.
Proposing
sustainable
development missionsor visions
and
formulating
sustainable
developmentpolicies, systems or
relevant management guidelines.
II. Incorporating
sustainable
developmentinto the Company’s
operating
activities
and
development
directions
and
reviewing concrete promotion
plans
for
sustainable
development.
III. Ensuring
the
timeliness
and
accuracy of the disclosure of
sustainable
development
information.
The
Board
of
Directors
shall
authorize thesenior management to
Article 7
The Company’s directors shall
exercise
due
care
as
good
administrators
in
urging
the
Company to implement thesocial
responsibility,and shall review the
effectiveness
of
such
implementation and make continual
improvements
to
ensure
the
implementation of corporate social
responsibility policies.
In the Company’sfulfillment
of
the
corporate
social
responsibility,
the
Board
of
Directors of the Company shall take
into full consideration the interests
of stakeholders and include the
following:
I.
Proposing
corporate
social
responsibility
missions
or
visions
and
formulating
corporate social responsibility
policies, systems or relevant
management guidelines.
II. Incorporating
the
corporate
social responsibilityinto the
Company’s operating activities
and development directions and
reviewing concrete promotion
plans for thecorporate social
responsibility.
III. Ensuring the timeliness and
accuracy of the disclosure of
corporate social responsibility
and include the following:
I. Proposing
following:
and
formulating
I. Proposing

developmentpolicies,
II. Incorporating

developmentinto the
II. Incorporating
the
reviewing concrete social responsibility
plans
for
Company’s operating
development.
III.
plans for the
responsibility.
III. Ensuring the
The
Board
authorize the

35

Amended Provisions Current Provisions Remarks/Description
handle economic, environmental and
social
issues
arising
from
the
Company’s operating activities. The
status of handlingshall be reported to
the Board of Directors, andthe
operating
procedures
and
the
responsible
personnel
shall
be
specific.
information.
The Board of Directors
authorize the General Manager
Article 8
The Company shall regularly
organize education and training on
the
promotion
of
sustainable
development,
including
the
promotion of Paragraph 2 of the
precedingarticle.
Article 8
The Company shall regularly
organize education and training on
the fulfillment of thecorporate
social responsibility,including the
promotion of Paragraph 2 of the
precedingarticle.
precedingarticle.
Article 9
In order to improve the management
of
sustainable
development,
the
Company
shall
establish
a
governance structure topromote
sustainable development,and set up a
dedicated (or part-time) unit for
sustainable development promotion.
The
unit
is
responsible
for
formulating
and
implementing
sustainable
development
policies,
systems, or relevant management
guidelines and concrete promotion
plans and for making regular reports
to the Board of Directors.
The Company shall establish a
reasonable remuneration policy to
ensure that the remuneration plan is
in line with the strategic goals of the
organization and the interests of
stakeholders.
The
employee
performance
evaluation system shall be integrated
with
sustainable
development
policies, and a clear and effective
reward and disciplinary system shall
be established.
Article 9
In
order
to
management of the

responsibility,the
Article 10
The Company, based on respect
for the rights and interests of
stakeholders,
shall
identify
its
Article 10
The
Company,
based
on
respect for the rights and interests
of stakeholders,shall identifyits

36

Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Current Provisions Remarks/Description
stakeholders and set up a stakeholder
section on the Company’s website;
understand
the
reasonable
expectations
and
needs
of
stakeholders
through
appropriate
communication
methods,
and
appropriately
respond
to
the
importantsustainable development
issues of their concern.
stakeholders
and
set
up
a
stakeholder
section
on
the
Company’s website; understand the
reasonable expectations and needs
of stakeholders through appropriate
communication
methods,
and
appropriately
respond
to
the
important
corporate
social
responsibility
issues
of
their
concern.
appropriately
important

responsibility
concern.
Article 12
The
Company
shall
be
committed
to
improving
the
efficiency of energy useand the use
of renewable materials with low
impact on the environment, so that
the Earth’s resources can be used
sustainably.
Article 12
sustainably.
Article 14 Article 14
The Company shall The Company shall
Article 17
The Company shall evaluate the
potential
risks
and
opportunities
arising from climate change now and
in the future and take relevant
countermeasures.
The Company shall use domestic
and foreign standards or guidelines to
conduct corporate greenhouse gas
inventories and disclose them. The
scope includes:
I.
Direct greenhouse gas emissions:
The greenhouse gas emission
sources are owned or controlled
by the Company.
II. Indirect
greenhouse
gas
emissions: Emissions generated
from the utilization of energy
such asimportedelectricity, heat,
or steam.
III. Other
indirect
emissions:
Emissions generated from the
Article 17
The
Company
shall
use
domestic and foreign standards or
guidelines to conduct corporate
greenhouse gas inventories and
disclose them. The scope includes:
I.
Direct
greenhouse
gas
emissions: The greenhouse gas
emission sources are owned or
controlled by the Company.
II. Indirect
greenhouse
gas
emissions: Emissions generated
from the utilization of energy
such aspurchasedelectricity,
heat, or steam.
I.
II.
such as
III.

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Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Current Provisions Remarks/Description
The
Company
shall
pay
attention to the impact of climate
change on operating activities,
formulate energy conservation and
carbon reduction and greenhouse
gas reduction strategies based on
operating conditions or greenhouse
gas
inventory
results,
and
incorporate
the
acquisition
of
carbon rights into the planning and
evaluation of the Company’s carbon
reduction strategies for promotion
in order to reduce the impact of the
Company’s operating activities on
climate change.

the Company.

The
Company
shall

statistics on its greenhouse

emissions, water consumption
Article 20
The Company shall provide
employees with a safe and healthy
working environment, including the
provision of necessary health and first
aid facilities, and be committed to
reducing risk factors to the safety and
health of employees in order to
prevent occupational disasters.
The Company shall regularly
implement
safety
and
health
education and training for employees.
Article 20
The Company shall provide
employees with a safe and healthy
working
environment,
including
necessary health and first aid
facilities, setting up a medical
office, training qualified first aid
personnel,
and
establishing
a
system for regular on-site physician
visits. The Company is committed
to reducing risk factors to the safety
and health of employees in order to
prevent occupational disasters.
The Company shall regularly
implement
safety
and
health
education
and
training
for
employees.
Article 21
The Company shall create a
good environment for employees’
career development and establish
effective
career
and
ability
development training programs.
The Company shall formulate
and implement reasonable employee
welfare
measures
(including
remuneration,
leave
and
other
benefits),and appropriately reflect
the business performance or results in
employee remuneration to ensure the
recruitment,
retention
and
Article 21
The Company shall create a
good environment for employees’
career development and establish
effective
career
and
ability
development training programsand
promotion systems.
The
Company
shall
appropriately reflect thecorporate
operation performance or results in
the employee remunerationpolicy
to ensure the recruitment, retention
and
encouragement
of
human
resources,achievingthegoal of

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Remarks/Description
encouragement of human resources,
achieving the goal of sustainable
operations.
sustainable operations.
Article 22-1
The
Company
shall
treat
customers
or
consumers
of
its
products or services in a fair and
reasonable
manner,
including
upholding fairness and integrity in
contracting, fulfilling the duty of care
and fiduciary duty, engaging in
truthful advertising and solicitation,
and
ensuring
the
suitability
of
products or services, notification and
disclosure,
remuneration
and
performance
balance,
complaint
protection, and the professionalism of
the sales force, and formulate relevant
implementation
strategies
and
specific measures.
Article 23
The
Company
shall
treat
customers or consumers of its
products or services in a fair and
reasonable
manner,
including
upholding fairness and integrity in
contracting, fulfilling the duty of
care and fiduciary duty, engaging in
truthful advertising and solicitation,
and ensuring the suitability of
products or services, notification
and disclosure, remuneration and
performance
balance,
complaint
protection, and the professionalism
of the sales force, and formulate
relevant implementation strategies
and specific measures.
Change of the order
of the article.
Article 23
The
Company
shall
be
accountable to its products and
services and value marketing ethics.
The R&D, procurement, production,
operations, and service processes
must ensure the transparency and
safety
of
product
and
service
information.
Relevant
consumer
rights and interests policies shall be
formulated
and
disclosed,
and
implemented in operating activities,
in order to prevent products or
services from damaging the rights,
interests,
health,
and
safety
of
consumers.
Article 24
The
Company
shall
be
accountable to its products and
services and value marketing ethics.
The
R&D,
procurement,
production, operations, and service
processes
must
ensure
the
transparency and safety of product
and service information. Relevant
consumer
rights
and
interests
policies shall be formulated and
disclosed, and implemented in
operating activities, in order to
prevent products or services from
damaging
the
rights,
interests,
health,and safetyof consumers.
Change of the order
of the article.
Article 24
The Company shall ensure the
quality of products and services in
accordance
with
government
regulations
and
industry-related
norms.
The
Company
shall
follow
relevant laws and regulations and
international standards forcustomer
health and safety, customer privacy,
and the marketing and labeling of its
products and services, and shall not
deceive, mislead, commit fraud or
anyother behavior that undermines
Article 25
The Company shall ensure the
quality of products and services in
accordance
with
government
regulations
and
industry-related
norms.
The Company shall follow
relevant laws and regulations and
international
standards
for
the
marketing and labeling of its
products and services, and shall not
deceive, mislead, commit fraud or
any other behavior that undermines
consumer
trust
or
damages
Change of the order
of the article.

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Remarks/Description consumer trust or damages consumer consumer rights and interests. rights and interests. Article 25 Article 26 Change of the order The Company shall evaluate and The Company shall evaluate manage various risks that may cause and manage various risks that may of the article. business interruption to mitigate their cause business interruption to impact on consumers and the society. mitigate their impact on consumers The Company shall provide and the society. transparent and effective consumer The Company shall provide complaint procedures for products transparent and effective consumer and services, handle consumer complaint procedures for products complaints fairly and in a timely and services, handle consumer manner, and comply with the complaints fairly and in a timely Personal Data Protection Act and manner, and comply with the other related laws and regulations to Personal Data Protection Act and respect consumers’ right to privacy other related laws and regulations to and protect the personal information respect consumers’ right to privacy provided by consumers. and protect the personal information provided by consumers. Article 26 Article 27 Change of the order The Company shall assess the The Company shall assess the environmental and social impacts of environmental and social impacts of of the article. its procurement activities on the its procurement activities on the supply source community, and work supply source community, and work with suppliers to fulfill the corporate with suppliers to fulfill the social responsibility. corporate social responsibility. The Company shall establish a Before conducting business supplier management policy that transactions, the Company shall requires suppliers to comply with evaluate suppliers for any records relevant regulations on environmental of impact on the environment and protection, occupational safety and society in order to avoid trading health, or labor human rights. Before with those contradicting the conducting business transactions, the Company’s corporate social Company shall evaluate suppliers for responsibility policy. any records of impact on the environment and society in order to avoid trading with those contradicting When the Company enters into the Company’s corporate social contracts with major suppliers, the responsibility policy. contents shall include clauses that When the Company enters into require compliance with the contracts with major suppliers, the corporate social responsibility contents shall include clauses that policies of both parties and outline require compliance with the corporate that the contract may be terminated social responsibility policies of both or rescinded at any time if the parties and outline that the contract supplier is involved in a policy may be terminated or rescinded at any violation that causes a significant time if the supplier is involved in a impact on the environment of the policy violation that causes a supply source community and the significant impact on the environment society. of the supply source community and

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Current Provisions Remarks/Description
the society.
Article 27
The Company shall assess the
impact of the Company’s operations
on the community and appropriately
hire
local
human
resources
to
enhance community recognition.
Through
equity
investment,
commercial
activities,
donations,
corporate volunteer services or other
public
welfare
and
professional
services, the Company shall invest
resources in organizations that solve
social or environmental problems
through
business
models,
civic
organizations and charities engaging
in
community
development
and
community education, and related
activities of government agencies to
promote community development.
Article 28
The Company shall assess the
impact of the Company’s operations
on the community and appropriately
hire local human resources to
enhance community recognition.
Through equity investment,
commercial activities, donations,
corporate volunteer services or
other
public
welfare
and
professional services, the Company
shall
invest
resources
in
organizations that solve social or
environmental problems through
business
models,
civic
organizations
and
charities
engaging
in
community
development
and
community
education, and related activities of
government agencies to promote
communitydevelopment.
Change of the order
of the article.
Article 27-1
Through donations, sponsorship,
investment, procurement, strategic
collaboration,
corporate
volunteer
technical services, or other forms of
support, the Company shall continue
to inject resources into cultural and
artistic activities or cultural and
creative industries to promote cultural
development.
(Newly added) Addition
of
a
provision.
Chapter
V
Enhancement
of
Disclosure
of
Corporate
Sustainability Information
Article 28
The Company shall disclose
information
in
accordance
with
related laws and regulations and the
Corporate Governance Best-Practice
Principles, and make full disclosures
of reliable information related to
sustainable development to enhance
information transparency.
The
sustainable
development
information
disclosed
by
the
Company is as follows:
I.
The
sustainable
development
policies, systems, or relevant
management
guidelines
and
Chapter
V
Enhancement
of
Disclosure of Corporate Social
Responsibility Information
Article 29
The Company shall disclose
information in accordance with
related laws and regulations and the
Corporate
Governance
Best-Practice Principles, and make
full
disclosures
of
reliable
information related to the corporate
social responsibility to enhance
information transparency.
The
corporate
social
responsibilityinformation disclosed
by the Company is as follows:
I.
The
corporate
social
responsibility
policies,
Change of the order
of the article.
I. The

41

Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Current Provisions Current Provisions Remarks/Description
concrete
promotion
plans
approved by the Board of
Directors.
Risks and impacts arising from
the implementation of corporate
governance, the development of
a sustainable environment, and
the
maintenance
of
social
welfare
on
the
Company’s
operations
and
financial
position.
The
Company’s
promotion
goals,
measures,
and
implementation performance for
sustainable development.
Major stakeholders and issues of
their concern.
Disclosure of information on the
management and performance of
major suppliers in relation to
material
environmental
and
social issues.
Other information related to
sustainable development.
systems,
or
relevant
management guidelines and
concrete
promotion
plans
approved by the Board of
Directors.
Risks and impacts arising from
the
implementation
of
corporate
governance,
the
development of a sustainable
environment,
and
the
maintenance of social welfare
on the Company’s operations
and financial position.
The
Company’s
fulfillment
goals,
measures,
and
implementation
performance
for
corporate
social
responsibility.
Major stakeholders and issues
of their concern.
Disclosure of information on
the
management
and
performance
of
major
suppliers in relation to material
environmental
and
social
issues.
Other information related to
corporate social responsibility.
II.
II.
III.
III.
IV.
for
V.
IV.
V.
VI.
VI.
Article 29 Article 30 Change of the order
of the article.
The Company The Company shall

report shall include the
I. I.
II. II.
III. III.

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Remarks/Description
IV. Future improvement directions
andgoals.
IV. Future improvement directions
andgoals.
Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions
Article 30
The Company shall pay attention
to the development of domestic and
foreign
sustainable
development
standards
and
changes
in
the
corporate environment at all times,
and
review
and
improve
the
sustainable
development
system
established by the Company to
enhance
the
effectiveness
of
sustainable development promotion.
Chapter
VI
Supplementary
Provisions
Article 31
The
Company
shall
pay
attention to the development of
domestic and foreigncorporate
social responsibilitystandards and
changes
in
the
corporate
environment at all times, and
review and improve thecorporate
social
responsibility
system
established by the Company to
enhance
the
effectiveness
of
corporate
social
responsibility
fulfillment.
Change of the order
of the article.
Article 32
The Principles were established
on August 10, 2017, andthe 1st
amendment was made on May 10,
2023.
Article 33
The
Principles
were
established on August 10, 2017.
Change of the order
of
the
article;
addition of the date
of amendment.

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[Attachment 6]

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Comparison Table of Amendments to Certain Provisions of the “Rules Governing Shareholders’ Meetings”

Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description Article 3 Article 3 1. Partial amendment in Unless otherwise provided by Unless otherwise provided accordance with the Company Act, a shareholders’ by the Company Act, a Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi meeting of the Company is shareholders’ meeting of the Announcement No. convened by the Board of Company is convened by the 1120004167 issued by Directors. Board of Directors. Taiwan Stock Exchange Unless otherwise provided by 30 days before the Corporation on March 17, the Regulations Governing the Company convenes an annual 2023. Administration of Shareholder general shareholders’ meeting or 2. Amendment to Services of Public Companies, the 15 days before a special Paragraph 3 in accordance Company’s convening of a shareholders’ meeting, the with Article 6 of the virtual-only shareholders’ meeting Company shall prepare Regulations Governing shall be specified in the Articles of electronic files of the meeting Content and Compliance Incorporation and subject to a announcement, proxy form, Requirements for resolution of the Board of Directors explanatory materials relating to Shareholders’ Meeting adopted by a majority of the proposals for ratification, matters Agenda Handbooks of attending directors that represent for deliberation, election or Public Companies, as two-thirds or more of all directors. dismissal of directors, and other amended and promulgated Changes to the method of matters on the shareholders’ on December 16, 2021. convening a shareholders’ meeting meeting agenda, and upload of the Company shall be subject to them to the MOPS. 21 days a resolution of the Board of before the Company convenes an Directors and made no later than annual general shareholders’ the dispatch of the notice of the meeting or 15 days before a shareholders’ meeting. special shareholders’ meeting, 30 days before the Company the Company shall prepare convenes an annual general electronic files of the shareholders’ meeting..., the shareholders’ meeting agenda Company shall prepare electronic handbook and supplemental files and transmit them to the materials, and upload them to the Market Observation Post System. MOPS. When the Company will However, if the Company’s paid-in convene a shareholders’ meeting, capital at the end of the most recent it shall, 15 days before the fiscal year reaches NTD 10 billion scheduled date of the or more or the total shareholding of shareholders’ meeting, prepare foreign and Chinese investors the shareholders’ meeting agenda recorded on the shareholders’ handbook and supplemental register for the annual general materials and make them shareholders’ meeting in the most available for the shareholders to recent year reaches 30% or more, obtain and review at any time. the transmission of the The handbook shall be displayed

44

Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
aforementioned
electronic
files

at the Company and its stock


shall be completed 30 days before
registrar and transfer agent,and

the annual general shareholders’


shall distribute them on-site at

meeting.
the shareholder’s meeting.
(The rest is omitted)
(The rest is omitted)
The Company shall make the
handbook
and
supplementary
materials
referred
to
in
the
preceding paragraph available to
shareholders for reference in the
following manners on the day of
the shareholders’meeting:
1.
When
a
physical
shareholders’meeting is convened,
the materials shall be distributed at
the venue of the shareholders’
meeting.
2.
When
a
hybrid
shareholders’meeting is convened,







the materials shall be distributed at
the venue of the shareholders’
meeting
and
transmitted

electronically to the virtual meeting

platform.

3.
When
a
virtual-only

shareholders’meeting is convened,

the materials shall be transmitted
electronically to the virtual meeting

platform.

(The rest is omitted)
Article 4 Article 4 1. Partial amendment in
Paragraphs 1 and 2 are
Paragraphs 1 and 2 are

accordance
with

omitted.

omitted.
Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi








Announcement
No.
After the service of a written
proxy to the Company, if the 1120004167
issued
by

shareholder issuing the said proxy
Taiwan Stock Exchange

intends to attend the shareholders’
Corporation on March 17,
meeting virtually, a written proxy 2023.

rescission notice shall be filed with
2.
Amendment
to
the Company two days prior to the Paragraph 3 of this Article

date of the shareholders’meeting;
in
accordance
with

otherwise,
the
voting
rights
Paragraph 4, Article 177 of



exercised by the authorized proxy
the Company Act.

at the meeting shall prevail.
Article 5 Article 5 1. Partial amendment in
The Company shall specify in
The Company shall specify

accordance
with
the meeting notice the time and
in
its
shareholders’
meeting

Tai-Zheng-Shang-Yi-Zi
place where the registration will be
notices the time duringwhich

Announcement
No.

45

Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description accepted for shareholders, attendance registration for 1020003468 issued by solicitors, and authorized proxies shareholders, the place to register Taiwan Stock Exchange (hereinafter collectively referred to for attendance, and other matters Corporation on February as “shareholders”), and other for attention. 27, 2013. matters to be noted. The time during which The time for shareholder shareholder attendance registration shall be at least 30 registration will be accepted, as minutes before the commencement stated in the preceding of the meeting. The place for paragraph, shall be at least 30 registration shall be clearly marked minutes prior to the time the and sufficient qualified personnel meeting commences. The place shall be assigned to handle the at which attendance registration registration. For a virtual-only is accepted shall be clearly shareholders’ meeting, the virtual marked and a sufficient number meeting platform will start to of suitable personnel assigned to accept shareholder registrations 30 handle the registrations. minutes before the meeting begins. A shareholder or a proxy Shareholders who have completed appointed by a shareholder registrations shall be deemed to (hereinafter referred to as a have attended the meeting in shareholder) shall attend person. shareholders’ meetings based on A shareholder shall attend attendance cards, sign-in cards, shareholders’ meetings based on or other certificates of attendance cards, sign-in cards, or attendance. The Company shall other certificates of attendance. The not arbitrarily add requirements Company shall not arbitrarily add for other documents beyond requirements for other documents those showing eligibility to beyond those showing eligibility to attend presented by shareholders. attend presented by shareholders. Solicitors soliciting written Solicitors soliciting written proxies proxies shall also bring shall also bring identification identification documents for documents for verification. verification. Paragraphs 4–6 are omitted Where a virtual-only shareholders’ meeting is convened, Paragraphs 4–6 are omitted shareholders who intend to attend the meeting virtually shall register with the Company two days before the shareholders’ meeting. Where a virtual-only shareholders’ meeting is convened, the Company shall upload the agenda handbook, annual report, and other relevant materials to the virtual meeting platform for the shareholders’ meeting at least 30 minutes before the start of the meeting, and keep disclosing them until the end of the

46

Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
meeting.
Article 6 Article 6 Partial
amendment
in
Shares shall be the basis for
Shares shall be the basis for

accordance
with
the calculation of attendees at a
the calculation of attendees at a

Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi
shareholders’ meeting. The number
shareholders’
meeting.
The

Announcement
No.
of
shares
represented
by

number of shares represented by

1110004250
issued
by
participating shareholders shall be
participating shareholders shall

Taiwan Stock Exchange
calculated based on the sign-in
be calculated based on the

Corporation on March 8,
book or the submitted sign-in cards
sign-in book or the submitted

2022.
and the
number
of
shares

sign-in cards, added with the


represented
by
shareholders

number of shares with voting
completing registrations on the
rights that are exercised in
virtual meeting platform, added
writing or by electronic means.
with the number of shares with
voting rights that are exercised in
writingor byelectronic means.
Article 6-1 None Partial
amendment
in
The Company shall specify the




















accordance
with
following
in
the
shareholders’
Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi
meeting notice when convening a Announcement
No.
virtual-only shareholders’meeting: 1120004167
issued
by
I. Methods
for
shareholders’
Taiwan Stock Exchange
participation in the meeting
Corporation on March 17,
and exercise of their rights. 2023.
II. Methods
for
handling
a

disruption
to
the
virtual

meeting platform or virtual

participation due to natural

disasters, accidents or other
_force majeure_events, at least
including the following:

(I)

The date and time the
meeting
will
be

postponed to or resumed

if
the
aforementioned
disruption cannot be ruled

out.
(II) Shareholders who did not
register to participate in

the original shareholders’

meeting virtually are not

allowed to participate in

the postponed or resumed

meeting.

(III) Where the virtual meeting

at a hybrid shareholders’

meeting cannot continue

and the total number of

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Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
shares represented in the











































meeting, net of those

represented
by
virtual


participants, meets the

minimum
legal

requirement
for
a

shareholders’
meeting,

the shareholders’meeting

shall continue. The shares
represented by the virtual

participants
shall
be

counted toward the total
number
of
shares
represented
by


shareholders present at

the meeting,
and the

virtual participants shall

be
deemed
to
have
abstained from voting on

all
proposals
in
the

meeting agenda of that

shareholders’meeting.

(IV) Actions to be taken if the
results of all proposals

have been announced and
no extraordinary motion

has been made.
III. To convene
a
virtual
shareholders’
meeting,

appropriate
alternative

measures
available
to
shareholders with difficulties
in attending the shareholders’

meeting
virtually
shall
be


specified.
Except
for
the


circumstances set forth in
Paragraph 6, Article 44-9 of

the Regulations Governing the

Administration of Shareholder
Services of Public Companies,

the Company shall at least

provide connection equipment

and necessary assistance to

shareholders, and specify the

period
during
which


shareholders may apply to the

Company and other matters to

be noted.

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Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
Article 7 Article 7 Addition of Paragraph 2 to
The venue for a shareholders’
The
venue
for
a

specify that the Company’s
meeting shall be the premises of
shareholders’ meeting shall be

virtual
shareholders’
the Company, or a place easily
the premises of the Company, or

meetings are not subject to
accessible to shareholders and
a place easily accessible to

the venue restriction. The
suitable
for
holding
the

shareholders and suitable for

original paragraph 2 was
shareholders’ meeting. The meeting
holding
the
shareholders’

renumbered Paragraph 3.
shall not begin earlier than 9 a.m.
meeting. The meeting shall not

or later than 3 p.m. begin earlier than 9 a.m. or later
The preceding paragraph on
than 3 p.m.
the meeting venue does not apply
Paragraphs 2–4 are omitted
to
the
Company’s
virtual
shareholders’meetings.

Paragraphs 3–5 are omitted
Article 9 Article 9 1. Partial amendment with
Paragraphs
1
and
2
are

Paragraphs 1 and 2 are

reference to Article 183 of
omitted. omitted. the Company Act and
Where a virtual shareholders’ Article
18
of
the
meeting is convened, the Company

















Regulations
Governing
shall keep records of shareholders’ Procedure for Board of
registrations,
questions
raised,
Directors
Meetings
of
votes cast, and the number of votes Public Companies.
counted by the Company, and 2. Partial amendment in
continuously
audio
and
video
accordance
with
record, without interruption, the Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi
virtual meeting from beginning to Announcement
No.
end. 1120004167
issued
by
The records and audio and Taiwan Stock Exchange
video recordings in the preceding Corporation on March 17,
paragraph
shall
be
properly
2023.
retained during the Company’s

existence. The audio and video
recordings shall be provided to the

body commissioned to handle

matters related to the virtual
meeting for retention.

Where a virtual shareholders’
meeting is convened, the Company

is advised to audio and video
record the back-end operation

interface of the virtual meeting

platform.
Article 10 Article 10 1. Partial amendment in
Paragraph 1 is omitted. Paragraph 1 is omitted. accordance
with
The
chair
shall
call
the

The chair shall call the

Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi
meeting to order at the appointed
meeting to order at the appointed

Announcement
No.
meeting time. However, when
meeting time. However, when

1120004167
issued
by
attending
shareholders
do
not

attendingshareholders do not

Taiwan Stock Exchange

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description represent a majority of the total represent a majority of the total Corporation on March 17, number of issued shares, the chair number of issued shares, the 2023. may announce a postponement, chair may announce a 2. Partial amendment with provided that there are no more postponement, provided that reference to Article 183 of than two such postponements, for a there are no more than two such the Company Act and combined total of no more than 1 postponements, for a combined Article 18 of the hour. If the shareholders’ meeting is total of no more than 1 hour. If Regulations Governing not attended by shareholders the attending shareholders after Procedure for Board of representing one-third or more of the second postponement do not Directors Meetings of the total number of issued shares represent at least one third of the Public Companies. after two postponements, the chair total outstanding shares, the chair shall announce adjournment of the will announce adjournment of meeting. the meeting due to the lack of a If, after two postponements, the quorum. number of attending shareholders If the attending shareholders still does not meet the quorum and after the second postponement, the shareholders represent one-third while still not meeting the or more of the total number of quorum, represent at least one issued shares, a tentative resolution third of the total outstanding may be adopted in accordance with shares, a tentative resolution may Paragraph 1, Article 175 of the be adopted in accordance with Company Act and shall be Paragraph 1, Article 175 of the communicated to the shareholders, Company Act and communicated and the meeting shall be convened to the shareholders to notify again within one month. If the them that the meeting will be shareholders’ meeting is convened convened again within one virtually, shareholders who intend month. to attend the meeting virtually (The rest is omitted) re-register with the Company in accordance with Article 5. (The rest is omitted) Article 12 Article 12 1. Partial amendment in Paragraph 1 is omitted. Paragraph 1 is omitted. accordance with If a virtual shareholders’ Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi meeting is convened, shareholders Announcement No. attending the meeting virtually may 1120004167 issued by ask questions in writing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange virtual meeting platform for the Corporation on March 17, shareholders’ meeting after the 2023. chair declares the meeting to order 2. Partial amendment with and before the chair declares the reference to Article 183 of meeting adjourned. No more than the Company Act and two questions may be raised on the Article 18 of the same proposal. Each question shall Regulations Governing contain no more than 200 words. Procedure for Board of Paragraph 1, Article 13, and Article Directors Meetings of 14 do not apply. Public Companies. As long as the questions so

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description raised in accordance with the preceding paragraph are not in violation of the regulations or beyond the scope of a proposal, it is advisable they be disclosed to the public on the virtual meeting platform. Article 20 Article 20 1. Partial amendment in Paragraphs 1 and 2 are Paragraphs 1 and 2 are accordance with omitted. omitted. Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi Where any shareholder who Where any shareholder who Announcement No. has exercised voting rights in a has exercised voting rights in a 1120004167 issued by written or electronic form intends written or electronic form Taiwan Stock Exchange to attend the shareholders’ meeting intends to attend the Corporation on March 17, in person or virtually, the shareholders’ meeting in person, 2023. shareholder shall withdraw his/her the shareholder shall withdraw 2. Partial amendment with previous intention to exercise his/her previous intention to reference to the Ministry voting rights in the same way in exercise voting rights in the same of Economic Affairs’ which he/she exercised voting way in which he/she exercised Letter Jing-Shang-Zi No. rights two days before the date of voting rights two days before the 10102404740 dated the shareholders’ meeting. If said date of the shareholders’ February 24, 2012 and intention is withdrawn after that meeting. If said intention is Letter Jing-Shang-Zi No. period, the voting rights exercised withdrawn after that period, the 10102414350 dated May 3 in a written or electronic form shall voting rights exercised in a of the same year. prevail. Where any shareholder written or electronic form shall who has exercised voting rights in prevail. Where any shareholder a written or electronic form has who has exercised voting rights appointed a proxy to attend the in a written or electronic form shareholders’ meeting through a has appointed a proxy to attend letter of attorney, the voting rights the shareholders’ meeting exercised by the appointed proxy at through a letter of attorney, the the meeting shall prevail. voting rights exercised by the Paragraph 4 is omitted. appointed proxy at the meeting Shareholders attending a shall prevail. virtual shareholders’ meeting Paragraph 4 is omitted. virtually shall vote on various proposals and election proposals through the virtual meeting platform after the chair announces the meeting to order, and shall complete the voting before the chair announces that the voting ends, or the shareholders will be deemed to have abstained from the voting. If a virtual shareholders’ meeting is convened, votes shall be counted at once after the chair

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Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
announces that the voting ends, and























the voting and election results shall

be announced immediately.

For a hybrid shareholders’

meeting,
if
shareholders
who

registered to attend the meeting

virtually in accordance with Article

5 intend to attend the physical

meeting in person, they shall

withdraw their registration two

days
before
the
shareholders’

meeting in the same manner as they

registered. If their registration is

not withdrawn within the time
limit, they may only attend the

shareholders’meeting virtually.

A
shareholder
who
has
exercised voting rights in a written

or
electronic
form
without
withdrawing his/her declaration of

intent
and
participates
in
a

shareholders’
meeting
virtually


shall not exercise voting rights on

the original proposal, except for

extraordinary motions, propose any

amendment
to
the
original

proposal, or exercise voting rights

on an amendment to the original

proposal.
Article 23 Article 23 1. Paragraphs 1 to 3 are
Paragraphs 1 to 3 are omitted. Paragraphs 1 to 3 are
not amended.
Where a virtual shareholders’ omitted. 2. Partial amendment in
meeting is convened, the minutes accordance
with
of the meeting shall record, in










Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi
addition to the matters required by Announcement
No.
the
preceding
paragraph,
the
1120004167
issued
by
beginning and ending time of the Taiwan Stock Exchange
shareholders’meeting, the method Corporation on March 17,
of convening the meeting, the name 2023.
of the chair and the minutes taker, 3. Partial amendment in
and the method and status of accordance with Article
handling a disruption to the virtual 44-20 of the Regulations
meeting
platform
or
virtual
Governing
the
participation
due
to
natural
Administration
of
disasters, accidents or other_force_ Shareholder Services of
_majeure_events. Public Companies.
The Company shall comply

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description with the preceding paragraph when convening a virtual shareholders’ meeting, and specify in the minutes of the meeting the alternative measures provided for shareholders with difficulties in attending the shareholders’ meeting virtually. Article 24 Article 24 1. Partial amendment in On the day of a shareholders’ On the day of a accordance with meeting, the Company shall shareholders’ meeting, the Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi compile in the prescribed format a Company shall compile in the Announcement No. statistical statement of the number prescribed format a statistical 1120004167 issued by of shares obtained by solicitors statement of the number of Taiwan Stock Exchange through solicitation, the number shares obtained by solicitors Corporation on March 17, of shares represented by authorized through solicitation and the 2023. proxies, and the number of shares number of shares represented by 2. Partial amendment in represented by shareholders authorized proxies, and shall accordance with Article attending the meeting by make an express disclosure of 44-20 of the Regulations correspondence or electronic the same at the venue of the Governing the means, and shall make an express shareholders’ meeting. Administration of disclosure of the same at the venue (The rest is omitted) Shareholder Services of of the shareholders’ meeting. If a Public Companies. virtual shareholders’ meeting is convened, the Company shall upload the aforementioned information to the virtual meeting platform for the shareholders’ meeting at least 30 minutes before the start of the meeting and keep disclosing it until the end of the meeting. For a virtual shareholders’ meeting, when the meeting is called to order, the total number of shares represented by the attending shareholders shall be disclosed on the virtual meeting platform. The same shall apply to if there are statistics on the total number of shares and voting rights represented by the attending shareholders. (The rest is omitted) Article 26 1. Addition of this article. If a virtual shareholders’ 2. Partial amendment in meeting is convened, the Company accordance with shall disclose the voting results of Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi each proposal and election results Announcement No.

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Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
on the virtual meeting platform for




1120004167
issued
by
the
shareholders’
meeting
in
Taiwan Stock Exchange
accordance with the regulations Corporation on March 17,
immediately after the end of the 2023.
voting and keep disclosing them for 3. Partial amendment in
at least 15 minutes after the chair accordance with Article
declares the meeting adjourned. 44-20 of the Regulations
Governing
the
Administration
of
Shareholder Services of
Public Companies.
Article 27 一、Addition
of
this
When the Company convenes





article.
a virtual shareholders’meeting, the 2. Partial amendment in
chair and the minutes taker shall be accordance with Article
in the same location in the 44-20 of the Regulations
Republic of China (Taiwan), and Governing
the
the chair shall
announce the

Administration
of
address of the location at the time Shareholder Services of
of the meeting. Public Companies.
Article 28 1. Addition of this article.
If
a
virtual
shareholders'























2. Partial amendment in
meeting is convened, the chair accordance
with
shall, when calling the meeting to Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi
order,
make
a
separate
Announcement
No.
announcement,
declaring
that,
1120004167
issued
by
unless under a circumstance where Taiwan Stock Exchange
a meeting is not required to be Corporation on March 17,
postponed or resumed at another 2023.
time under Paragraph 4, Article 3. Partial amendment in
44-20
of
the
Regulations
accordance with Article
Governing the Administration of 44-20 of the Regulations
Shareholder Services of Public Governing
the
Companies, if the virtual meeting Administration
of
platform or virtual participation is Shareholder Services of
disrupted due to natural disasters, Public
Companies,
the
accidents, or other_force majeure_ second half of Article 12
events before the chair announces and Paragraph 3, Article
the meeting adjourned and the 13 of the Regulations
disruption continues for more than Governing the Use of
30 minutes, the meeting shall be Proxies for Attendance at
postponed or resumed on another Shareholder Meetings of
date within five days. In such a Public
Companies,
and
case, Article 182 of the Company Paragraph 2, Article 44-5,
Act does not apply. Article
44-15,
and
For a meeting to be postponed Paragraph 1, Article 44-17
or resumed under the preceding of
the
Regulations
paragraph, shareholders who did Governing
the

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Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
not register to participate in the










































Administration
of
original
shareholders’
meeting
Shareholder Services of
virtually
are
not
allowed
to
Public Companies.
participate in the postponed or

resumed meeting.

For a meeting to be postponed

or resumed under Paragraph 1, the

number of shares represented, and

the numbers of voting rights and

election rights exercised at the

original shareholders’meeting by

the
shareholders
who
have
registered to participate in and have

successfully signed in the meeting,

but do not attend the postponed or

resumed meeting, shall be counted

toward the total number of shares,
the number of voting rights, and the

number
of
election
rights

represented by the shareholders

present
at
the
postponed
or


resumed meeting.

During
a
postponed
or


resumed
shareholders’
meeting

held under Paragraph 1, no further

discussion or resolution is required

for the proposals for which votes

have been cast and counted and the
voting results or a list of directors

elected has been announced.
When the virtual meeting at a

hybrid
shareholders’
meeting


cannot continue as described in
Paragraph 1 and the total number

of
shares
represented
in
the

meeting, net of those represented

by virtual participants, meets the

minimum legal requirement for a

shareholders’
meeting,
the

shareholders’
meeting
shall

continue, and no postponement or

resumption
thereof
under

Paragraph 2 is required.

Under
circumstances
where
a
meeting shall continue under the

preceding paragraph, the shares

represented by virtual participants

at the shareholders’meeting shall

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Amended Provisions Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
be counted toward the total number





























of shares represented by the

shareholders present at the meeting,

provided these shareholders shall

be deemed to have abstained from
voting on all proposals in the

meeting
agenda
of
that


shareholders’meeting.

When postponing or resuming

a meeting under Paragraph 1, the

Company
shall
handle
the

preparatory work based on the date

of
the
original
shareholders’

meeting in accordance with the

requirements set forth in Paragraph

7, Article 44-20 of the Regulations

Governing the Administration of

Shareholder Services of Public
Companies.

The Company shall carry out

the matters set forth in the second
half of Article 12 and Paragraph 3,

Article 13 of the Regulations

Governing the Use of Proxies for

Attendance
at
Shareholder
Meetings of Public Companies, and

Paragraph 2, Article 44-5, Article

44-15, and Paragraph 1, Article

44-17
of
the
Regulations

Governing the Administration of

Shareholder Services of Public
Companies based on the date that a

shareholders’meeting shall be

postponed to or resumed on under

Paragraph 1.
Article 29 1. Addition of this article.
When convening a virtual









2. Partial amendment in
shareholders’
meeting,
the
accordance
with
Company shall provide appropriate Tai-Zheng-Zhi-Li-Zi
alternative
measures
for
Announcement
No.
shareholders with difficulties in 1120004167
issued
by
attending the shareholders’meeting Taiwan Stock Exchange
virtually. Corporation on March 17,
Except for the circumstances 2023.
set forth in Paragraph 6, Article 3. Partial amendment in
44-9 of the Regulations Governing accordance with Article
the Administration of Shareholder 44-20 of the Regulations
Services of Public Companies, the Governing
the

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description Company shall at least provide Administration of connection equipment and Shareholder Services of necessary assistance to Public Companies. shareholders, and specify the period during which shareholders may apply to the Company and other matters to be noted. Article 30 Article 26 Revision of the article These Rules, and any amendments These Rules, and any number. hereto, shall be implemented after amendments hereto, shall be adoption by the shareholders’ implemented after adoption by meeting. the shareholders’ meeting. Article 31 Article 27 Revision of the article These Rules were established on These Rules were established on number and addition of the September 17, 1999; the 1[st] September 17, 1999; the 1[st] amendment date. amendment was made on June 14, amendment was made on June 2002; the 2[nd] amendment was made 14, 2002; the 2[nd] amendment was on June 14, 2006; the 3[rd] made on June 14, 2006; the 3[rd] amendment was made on August amendment was made on August 26, 2016; the 4[th] amendment was 26, 2016; the 4[th] amendment was made on June 12, 2018; the 5[th] made on June 12, 2018; the 5[th] amendment was made on June 10, amendment was made on June 2020; the 6[th] amendment was made 10, 2020; and the 6[th] amendment on July 15, 2021; and the 7th was made on July 15, 2021. amendment was made on June 6, 2024.

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[Attachment 7]

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

List of Director Candidates for the 9th Term

Type of
Candidate
Name of
Candidate
Academic Background Experience Current Position Shareholding
Director Cheng Ke-Pin,
Juristic Person
Representative
of JING BAO
INVESTMENT
CO.,LTD.

Junior High School
Chairman of K.S. TERMINALS INC. Chairman of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Chairman of JING BAO INVESTMENT CO.,
LTD.
Director of CHIEN HO HSING TECHNOLOGY
(SUZHOU) CO., LTD.
2,568,000
Director Cheng
Yu-Liang
Elementary School Vice Chairman of K.S. TERMINALS INC. Director of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Vice Chairman and CTO of K.S. TERMINALS
INC.
Chairman/Director of SHERNG YII CO., LTD.
Director of CHI RUI (CAYMAN) HOLDING
LIMITED
6,780,191
Director Cheng I-Tien British Columbia Institute
of Technology
Project Manager of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Director of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Project Manager of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Director of CHIEN HO HSING TECHNOLOGY
(SUZHOU) CO., LTD.
Director of SONG XIN INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Director of SAN MAO INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Chairman of HAI LIN INVESTMENT CO.,LTD.

2,964,541
Director Cheng
Chieh-Yuan
Department of Intelligence,
Tokyo University of
Information Sciences

General Manager of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Deputy General Manager of K.S.
TERMINALS INC.
CEO of K.S. TERMINALS INC.’s subsidiary
in the U.S.
Sales Director of Grace Electron Corp.
(Guangzhou)
General Manager of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Supervisor of SAN MAO INVESTMENT CO.,
LTD.
Chairman of HUANGQI INVESTMENT CO.,
LTD.
Chairman of YUAN HONG INVESTMENT CO.,
LTD.
Chairman of JIEJU INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Chairman and General Manager of K.S. Terminals
USA LLC
3,926,057

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Type of
Candidate
Name of
Candidate
Academic Background Experience Current Position Shareholding
Director Cheng
Wen-Shuo
Department of Economics,
University of British
Columbia
Overseas Sales Manager of K.S.
TERMINALS INC.
Sales Manager of Draco K Enterprises LLC
Sales Assistant of Switchlab Inc.
Overseas Sales Manager of K.S. TERMINALS
INC.
Director of HUI HONG INVESTMENT CO.,
LTD.
Director of JU YUAN INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Chairman of YONG YUAN INVESTMENT CO.,
LTD.
Director of JU RUI INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Director ofSANMAOINVESTMENTCO.,LTD.
5,541,963
Independent
Director

Lee Yi-Lung
Ph.D., Department of
Electrical Engineering,
National Changhua
University of Education
Chairman of TERA AUTOTECH
CORPORATIONAdjunct Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Changhua University of
EducationAdjunct Professor, Department of
International Business Studies, National Chi
NanUniversity
Chairman of TERA AUTOTECH CORPORATION
Independent Director of K.S. TERMINALS INC.

0
Independent
Director

Hsu Ching-Tao
Bachelor, Department of
Accounting, Feng Chia
University
Senior Manager of President Securities
Corporation
Supervisor of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Independent Director of Excel Cell Electronic Co.,
Ltd.
Independent Director of Engley (Cayman)
IndustrialCo.,Ltd.
0
Independent
Director

Chen
Mau-Tong
Bachelor, Department of
Mechanical Engineering,
National Taiwan University
Graduated from TU Berlin

Person in Charge of Bai Lin Business
Consulting Co., Ltd.
Remuneration Committee Member of K.S.
TERMINALS INC.
General Manager of Brighten Optix
Engineer and Capacity Planning Supervisor of
aCompanyin Berlin, Germany

Person in Charge of Bai Lin Business Consulting
Co., Ltd.
Independent Director of GMT Global Inc.
Supervisor of Fuho Technology Co., Ltd.
Director of Shenbo Ancient Classics Culture
Foundation
0
Independent
Director

Wu Mei-Yuan
Bachelor, Department of
Accounting, National
ChungHsingUniversity
Assistant Vice President of Investment
Banking, KGI Securities
None 0

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[Attachment 8]

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Concurrent Positions Held by Candidates for Directors for the 9th Term

Term
Title Name Concurrent Positions Held in Other Profit-seekingEnterprises
Director Cheng Ke-Pin,
Juristic Person
Representative
of JING BAO
INVESTMENT
CO.,LTD.

Chairman of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Chairman of JING BAO INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Director of CHIEN HO HSING TECHNOLOGY (SUZHOU)
CO., LTD.
Director Cheng
Yu-Liang
Director of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Vice Chairman and CTO of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Chairman/Director of SHERNG YII CO., LTD.
Director of CHI RUI(CAYMAN)HOLDING LIMITED
Director Cheng I-Tien Project Manager of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Director of CHIEN HO HSING TECHNOLOGY (SUZHOU)
CO., LTD.
Director of SONG XIN INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Director of SAN MAO INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Chairman of HAI LIN INVESTMENT CO.,LTD.
Director Cheng
Chieh-Yuan
General Manager of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Supervisor of SAN MAO INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Chairman of HUANGQI INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Chairman of YUAN HONG INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Chairman of JIEJU INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Chairman and General Manager of K.S. Terminals USA LLC
Director Cheng
Wen-Shuo
Overseas Sales Manager of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Director of HUI HONG INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Director of JU YUAN INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Chairman of YONG YUAN INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Director of JU RUI INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
Director of SAN MAO INVESTMENT CO.,LTD.
Independent
Director
Lee Yi-Lung Chairman of TERA AUTOTECH CORPORATION
Independent Director of K.S. TERMINALS INC.
Independent
Director
Hsu Ching-Tao Independent Director of Excel Cell Electronic Co., Ltd.
Independent Director of Engley (Cayman)Industrial Co.,Ltd.
Independent
Director
Chen
Mau-Tong
Person in Charge of Bai Lin Business Consulting Co., Ltd.
Independent Director of GMT Global Inc.
Supervisor of Fuho Technology Co., Ltd.

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[Attachment 9]

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Articles of Incorporation

Chapter I General Provisions

Article 1: The Company is organized in accordance with the provisions stipulated in the Company Act and is named K.S. TERMINALS INC.

  • Article 2: The Company’s business services are as follows:

  • (I) Manufacturing, processing, trading, and domestic and foreign sales of a variety of terminals.

  • (II) Manufacturing, processing, trading, and domestic and foreign sales of plastic products associated with terminals.

  • (III) Manufacturing of mechanical and electrical circuits associated with terminals.

  • (IV) Manufacturing and processing of metal stamping and plastic molds associated with terminals.

  • (V) CC01080 Electronics Components Manufacturing.

  • (VI) C805050 Industrial Plastic Products Manufacturing.

  • (VII) CC01010 Manufacture of Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution Machinery.

  • (VIII) CQ01010 Mold and Die Manufacturing.

  • (IX) CC01040 Lighting Equipment Manufacturing.

  • (X) CA01130 Copper Rolling, Drawing and Extruding.

  • (XI) CP01010 Hand Tools Manufacturing.

  • (XII) CA04010 Surface Treatments.

  • (XIII) CC01060 Wired Communication Mechanical Equipment Manufacturing.

  • (XIV) CC01070 Wireless Communication Mechanical Equipment Manufacturing.

  • (XV) F219010 Retail Sale of Electronic Materials.

  • (XVI) F119010 Wholesale of Electronic Materials.

  • (XVII) C901010 Ceramic and Ceramic Products Manufacturing.

  • (XVIII) CC01990 Other Electrical Engineering and Electronic Machinery Equipment Manufacturing. (Power Socket)

  • (XIX) Import and export trading and distribution business of the above.

  • (XX) ZZ99999 All business items that are not prohibited or restricted by law, except those that are subject to special approval.

Article 3: The Company’s head office is located in Changhua County, Taiwan. Where

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necessary, a domestic or overseas branch may be set up by resolution of the
Board of Directors.
Article 4: The Company’s announcements are made in accordance with Article 28 of the
Company Act.
Article 5: The external reinvestment of the Company may exceed 40% of the paid-in
capital. The Board of Directors is authorized to execute the reinvestment.
Article 6: The Company may, for business purposes, provide external guarantees to
affiliates or investees or other companies in the same industry.
Chapter II Shares
Article 7: The total of the Company’s authorized capital is NTD 2,000 million, divided
into 200 million shares for NTD 10 per share. NTD 50 million or 5 million
shares are retained for employee stock option conversion. Unissued shares are
authorized to the Board of Director to be issued in installments.
Article 8: The Company’s shares are registered and are issued in accordance with Article
162 of the Company Act.
The Company is exempted from printing stock certificates when issuing shares
and shall register the shares with a centralized securities depository institution.
Article 9: Stock affairs such as the Company’s shareholders transfer shares, set up pledges
of rights, inheritance, donation, or change the seal or change the address, must
be conducted in accordance with the “Regulations Governing the
Administration of Shareholder Services of Public Companies”, unless otherwise
provided by the law and securities regulations.
Article 10: The issuance price of the Company’s employee stock options may be lower than
the closing price on the date of issuance, provided a resolution is adopted at the
shareholders’ meeting, which is attended by a majority of the total number of
shares issued and approved by two-thirds of the votes of attending shareholders.
The employee stock options may be issued in installments within one year from
the date of the shareholders’ meeting.
Article 11: If the Company intends to transfer the shares bought back to its employees at a
price lower than the average price of the actually bought back shares, the
transfer shall be agreed upon with the approval of at least two-thirds of the
shareholders in attendance at the most recent shareholders’ meeting representing
a majority of the total number of shares issued.
Article 12: Changes in share transfer may not be made within 60 days prior to the
scheduled date of the annual shareholders’ meeting, within 30 days prior to the
scheduled date of an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting, or within five days
prior to the record date of the distribution of dividends, bonuses, or other
interest.

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Chapter III Shareholders’ Meeting

  • Article 13: Shareholders’ meetings are divided into regular meetings of shareholders and special meetings of shareholders. A regular meeting shall be convened once a year within 6 months after the end of the fiscal year, with shareholders being notified 30 days in advance. A special meeting shall be convened when necessary, with shareholders being notified 15 days in advance. The Company may convene a shareholders’ meeting by video or using other methods announced by the central competent authority.

The notification stated in the preceding paragraph shall state the date, venue, and reason for the meeting.

Unless otherwise provided by the Company Act, a shareholders’ meeting is convened by the Board of Directors.

  • Article 14: When a shareholder is not able to attend a shareholders’ meeting for any reason, they shall issue a written proxy and state therein the scope of authority with reference to the subjects to be discussed at the meeting. In addition to provisions stipulated in Article 177 of the Company Act, procedures of proxies for attendance at a shareholders’ meeting shall be handled in accordance with the “Regulations Governing the Use of Proxies for Attendance at Shareholder Meetings of Public Companies”.

  • Article 15: Each shareholder of the Company is entitled to one vote, except for restricted voting rights or shares that have no voting rights as listed in the Company Act.

  • Article 16: Resolutions at a shareholders’ meeting shall, unless otherwise provided for in the Company Act, be adopted by a majority vote of the shareholders present, who represent more than one-half of the total number of voting shares.

  • At a shareholders’ meeting convened after the Company’s shares are listed on TWSE (TPEx) by the Company, voting rights may be exercised in writing or electronically. Where voting rights are exercised in writing or electronically, such means of exercise shall be expressly provided in the notice of the shareholders’ meeting.

  • Article 17: The resolutions at the shareholders’ meeting shall be made into minutes, which shall be signed or sealed by the chair of the shareholders’ meeting and distributed to all shareholders within 20 days after the meeting. The production and distribution of the meeting minutes may be done so on the MOPS. The retention period for the contents of meeting minutes and various

  • information of the shareholders’ meetings shall be handled in accordance with Article 183 of the Company Act.

Chapter IV Board of Directors

  • Article 18: The Company has 5-9 directors. Directors shall be elected through the candidate

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nomination system and by shareholders on the list of nominated candidates. Each director serves a term of three years, and may assume another term of office if reelected. Among the number of the abovementioned directors, there shall be at least three independent directors and not less than one-fifth of the number of directors. Independent directors’ professional qualifications, shareholdings, restrictions on concurrent positions, and nomination and election methods, as well as other matters to be complied with, shall be handled in accordance with the relevant regulations of the competent securities authority.

  • Article 19: The Board of Directors shall have a Chairman, elected from among the directors in accordance with the Company Act. The Board of Directors shall have a Vice Chairman, elected in the same manner as the election of the Chairman.

  • Article 20: If the Chairman of the Board of Directors is on leave or absent or cannot exercise their power and authority for any reason, its proxy is handled pursuant to Article 208 of the Company Act.

  • Article 21: A Board meeting shall be convened by the Chairman of the Board in accordance with the provisions of the Company Act. A Board meeting may be convened at any time as necessary. In the event of an emergency, the notice of the convention of a Board meeting may be given in writing or by email.

  • Article 22: Unless otherwise regulated by the Company Act, resolutions of the Board of Directors shall be adopted by a majority of the directors at a meeting attended by more than half of the directors.

  • Directors shall attend Board meetings in person. A director unable to attend in person may appoint another director to attend the meeting in their place. In the case where a director appoints another director to attend a Board meeting on his/her behalf, he/she shall, in each time, issue a written proxy and state therein the scope of authority with reference to the subjects to be discussed at the meeting. The proxy referred to in the preceding paragraph may be the appointed proxy of only one person.

  • A Board meeting may be convened in the form of a virtual meeting. The directors participating in the virtual meeting shall be deemed attending the meeting in person.

  • Article 23: The Board of Directors is authorized to determine the remuneration of all directors of the Company based on the usual standards of the industry.

  • Article 23-1: For the purposes of developing supervisory functions and strengthening management mechanisms, the Board of Directors of the Company, in consideration of the Company’s scale of operations and number of independent directors, may set up functional committees, and expressly provide for them in the Articles of Incorporation and be approved by the Board of Directors.

  • Article 23-2: The Company shall take out directors liability insurance with respect to the liabilities resulting from exercising their duties during their term of office.

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Chapter V Audit Committee

Article 24: The Company has established an Audit Committee in accordance with Article 14-4 of the Securities and Exchange Act. The Audit Committee is responsible for performing the duties of supervisors as defined in the Company Act, Securities and Exchange Act, and other applicable regulations. The Audit Committee shall be made up by all independent directors and shall consist of not less than 3 persons, with one of them as the convener and at least one of them with accounting or financial expertise. Article 25: (Deleted). Chapter VI Management and Employees Article 26: The Company may have one General Manager and several Deputy General Managers or Assistant Vice Presidents and managers. Their appointment and dismissal as well as remuneration are handled pursuant to Article 29 of the Company Act.

Chapter VII Accounting

Article 27: Deleted. Article 28: At the end of each fiscal year, the Board of Directors shall prepare the following documents and submit them to the annual general shareholders’ meeting for ratification 30 days prior to an annual general meeting: (1) Business Report; (2) Financial statements; and (3) Proposal for earnings distribution or loss offset. Article 29: If the Company has a profit in the year, it should first set aside no less than 3% as remuneration to employees and no more than 3% as remuneration to directors. However, earnings shall first be used to make up accumulated losses, if any. Article 30 After final accounting for the year, the Company shall first pay taxes and cover previous losses with the profit for the year, if any. 10% of the remaining balance may be set aside as legal reserve, provided the legal reserve does not reach the amount of the Company’s paid-in capital. In addition, special reserve may be appropriated or reversed in accordance with the regulations of the competent authorities. If there are remaining earnings, distributable earnings are conducted together with the accumulated undistributed earnings of the previous year in accordance with Article 31. Article 31: The Company operates in the electronic components industry and strives to be in line with the overall environment and the characteristics of the industry. The Company achieves its sustainability, pursues long-term interests of shareholders, stabilizes business performance targets, while taking into account the Company’s budget for future capital expenditures and the status of capital

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needs. The Company’s dividend policy is to appropriate at least 10% of its earnings after tax, less legal reserve and special reserve, as shareholder bonus, with cash dividends accounting for at least 10% of the total dividends paid to shareholders. Earnings may not be distributed where the Company’s net profit after tax for the year does not reach 15% of the paid-in capital. The Company may distribute its accumulated undistributed earnings from the previous year if there are no earnings for the year. Where the shareholder bonus or legal reserve or capital reserve as mentioned above is paid in cash, the Board of Directors is authorized by approval of two-thirds of the directors at a meeting attended by more than half of the directors, and shall be reported at the shareholders’ meeting.

Chapter VIII Supplemental Provisions

Article 32: Matters not provided in this Articles of Incorporation shall be subject to the Company Act.

Article 33:

The Articles of Incorporation were established on January 20, 1978. The 1st amendment was made on June 3, 1981; the 2nd amendment was made on November 4, 1982; the 3rd amendment was made on April 6, 1984; the 4th amendment was made on August 12, 1987; the 5th amendment was made on August 14, 1989; the 6th amendment was made on April 18, 1990; the 7th amendment was made on July 25, 1993; the 8th amendment was made on December 17, 1993; the 9th amendment was made on June 21, 1994; the 10th amendment was made on October 12, 1994; the 11th amendment was made on December 5, 1994; the 12th amendment was made on May 22, 1995; the 13th amendment was made on June 4, 1996; the 14th amendment was made on October 18, 1996; the 15th amendment was made on January 20, 1998; the 16th amendment was made on June 3, 1998; the 17th amendment was made on May 3, 1999; the 18th amendment was made on July 9, 1999; the 19th amendment was made on June 15, 2000; the 20th amendment was made on January 11, 2001; the 21st amendment was made on May 16, 2001; the 22nd amendment was made on June 14, 2002; the 23rd amendment was made on June 12, 2003; the 24th amendment was made on June 16, 2005; the 25th amendment was made on June 14, 2006; the 26th amendment was made on June 13, 2007; the 27th amendment was made on June 13, 2008; the 28th amendment was made on June 16, 2009; the 29th amendment was made on June 15, 2010; the 30th amendment was made on June 13, 2012. The 31st amendment was made on June 6, 2014; the 32nd amendment was made on June 8, 2016; the 33rd amendment was made on June 7, 2017; the 34th amendment was made on June 12, 2018; the 35th amendment was made on June 10, 2020; the 36th amendment was made on July 15, 2021; the 37th amendment was made on June 10, 2022.

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[Attachment 10]

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Rules Governing Shareholders’ Meetings (Before Amendment)

Article 1: These Rules for the Company’s shareholders’ meetings have been formulated in
accordance with the provisions stipulated in Article 5 of the Corporate
Governance Best Practice Principles for TWSE/TPEx Listed Companies for
compliance.
Article 2: The shareholders’ meeting of the Company, unless otherwise specified by laws,
shall be subject to these Rules.
Article 3: Unless otherwise provided by the Company Act, a shareholders’ meeting of the
Company is convened by the Board of Directors.
30 days before the Company convenes an annual general shareholders’ meeting
or 15 days before a special shareholders’ meeting, the Company shall prepare
electronic files of the meeting announcement, proxy form, explanatory materials
relating to proposals for ratification, matters for deliberation, election or
dismissal of directors, and other matters on the shareholders’ meeting agenda,
and upload them to the MOPS. 21 days before the Company convenes an annual
general shareholders’ meeting or 15 days before a special shareholders’
meeting, the Company shall prepare electronic files of the shareholders’ meeting
agenda handbook and supplemental materials, and upload them to the MOPS.
When the Company will convene a shareholders’ meeting, it shall, 15 days
before the scheduled date of the shareholders’ meeting, prepare the
shareholders’ meeting agenda handbook and supplemental materials and make
them available for the shareholders to obtain and review at any time. The
handbook shall be displayed at the Company and its stock registrar and transfer
agent, and shall distribute them on-site at the shareholder’s meeting.
The cause(s)of a meeting of shareholders to be convened shall be indicated in
the individua; and the notice may, be given by means of electronic transmission,
after obtaining a prior consent from the recipient(s) thereof.
Matters pertaining to election or discharge of directors, alteration of the Articles
of Incorporation, reduction of capital, application for the approval of ceasing its
status as a public company, approval of competing with the Company by
directors, surplus profit distributed in the form of new shares, reserve distributed
in the form of new shares, the dissolution, merger, or demerger, or any matters
as set forth in Paragraph 1, Article 185 of the Company Act, Article 26-1 and
43-6 of the Securities and Exchange Act, and Article 56-1 and 60-2 of the
Regulations Governing the Offering and Issuance of Securities by Securities
Issuers, shall be itemized in the causes or subjects to be described and the
essential contents shall be explained in the notice to convene a meeting of

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shareholders, and shall not be brought up as extraordinary motions. Where re-election of all directors as well as their inauguration date is stated in the notice of the reasons for convening the shareholders’ meeting, after the completion of the re-election in said meeting such inauguration date may not be altered by any extraordinary motion or otherwise in the same meeting. Shareholder(s) holding one percent (1%) or more of the total number of outstanding shares of the Company may propose to the Company a proposal for discussion at an annual general shareholders’ meeting, provided that only one matter shall be allowed in each single proposal, and if a proposal contains more than one matter, such proposal shall not be included in the agenda. When the circumstances of any subparagraph of Article 172-1, Paragraph 4 of the Company Act apply to a proposal put forward by a shareholder, the Board of Directors may exclude it from the agenda. A shareholder may propose a recommendation to urge the corporation to promote public interests or fulfill its social responsibilities, provided procedurally the number of items so proposed are limited only to one in accordance with Article 172-1 of the Company Act, and no proposal containing more than one item will be included in the meeting agenda.

Prior to the book closure date before an annual general shareholders’ meeting is held, the Company shall publicly announce its acceptance of shareholder proposals in writing or electronically, and the location and time period for their submission; the period for submission of shareholder proposals may not be less than 10 days.

Shareholder-submitted proposals are limited to 300 words (including punctuation), and no proposal containing more than 300 words will be included in the meeting agenda. The shareholder making the proposal shall be present in person or by proxy at the annual general shareholders’ meeting and take part in discussion of the proposal.

Prior to the date for issuance of a notice of a shareholders’ meeting, the Company shall inform the shareholders who submitted proposals of the proposal screening results, and shall list in the meeting notice the proposals that conform to the provisions of this article. At the shareholders’ meeting, the Board of Directors shall explain the reasons for exclusion of any shareholder proposals not included in the agenda.

Article 4:

A shareholder may appoint a proxy to attend a shareholders’ meeting on his/her behalf by executing a power of attorney stating therein the scope of power authorized to the proxy. Except for trust enterprises or stock agencies approved by the competent authority, when a person who acts as the proxy for two or more shareholders, the number of voting power represented by him/her shall not exceed 3% of the total number of voting shares of the Company, otherwise, the portion of excessive voting power shall not be counted. A shareholder may only execute one power of attorney and appoint one proxy only, and shall serve such

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written proxy to the Company no later than 5 days prior to the meeting date of the shareholders’ meeting. If two or more written proxies are received from one shareholder, the first one received by the Company shall prevail; unless an explicit statement to revoke the previous written proxy is made in the proxy which comes later.

After the service of the power of attorney of a proxy to the Company, if the shareholder issuing the said proxy intends to attend the shareholders’ meeting in person or to exercise his/her voting power in writing or by way of electronic transmission, a proxy rescission notice shall be filed with the Company two days prior to the date of the shareholders’ meeting as scheduled in the shareholders’ meeting notice so as to rescind the proxy at issue, otherwise, the voting power exercised by the authorized proxy at the meeting shall prevail.

Article 5:

The Company shall specify in its shareholders’ meeting notices the time during which attendance registration for shareholders, the place to register for attendance, and other matters for attention.

The time during which shareholder attendance registration will be accepted, as stated in the preceding paragraph, shall be at least 30 minutes prior to the time the meeting commences. The place at which attendance registration is accepted shall be clearly marked and a sufficient number of suitable personnel assigned to handle the registrations.

A shareholder or a proxy appointed by a shareholder (hereinafter referred to as a shareholder) shall attend shareholders’ meetings based on attendance cards, sign-in cards, or other certificates of attendance. The Company may not arbitrarily add requirements for other documents beyond those showing eligibility to attend presented by shareholders. Solicitors soliciting proxy forms shall also bring identification documents for verification.

  • The Company shall prepare an attendance book for any attending shareholder to sign in or, alternatively, the attending shareholder may hand in a sign-in card. The Company shall provide any attending shareholder with an agenda handbook, the Annual Report, an attendance card, speaker’s slips, voting slips, and other meeting materials. Where there is an election of directors, ballots shall also be provided.

  • Where the government or any juristic person is a shareholder, it may be represented by more than one person at the shareholders’ meeting. Any juristic person attending the shareholders’ meeting as a proxy may only be represented by one person at the meeting.

  • Article 6: Shares shall be the basis for the calculation of attendees at a shareholders’

  • meeting. The number of shares represented by participating shareholders shall be calculated based on the sign-in book or the submitted sign-in cards, added with the number of shares with voting rights that are exercised in writing or by electronic means.

  • Article 7: The venue for a shareholders’ meeting shall be the premises of the Company, or

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a place easily accessible to shareholders and suitable for holding the shareholders’ meeting. The meeting shall not begin earlier than 9 a.m. or later than 3 p.m. Shareholder meetings that are convened by the Board of Directors shall be chaired by the Chairman of the Board. When the Chairman of the Board is on leave or for any reason and is unable to exercise the powers of the chair, the Vice Chairman shall do so in place of the Chairman of the Board, or, if there is no Vice Chairman or the Vice Chairman is also on leave for any reason and is unable to exercise the powers of the chair, the Chairman of the Board shall appoint one of the directors to act on his/her behalf. Where the Chairman fails to make such appointment, the directors shall select one among themselves. For a shareholders’ meeting convened by the Board of Directors, it is advisable that the Chairman of the Board chairs the meeting, that a majority of the directors and convener of the Audit Committee, or at least one supervisor, attend in person, and that at least one member of other functional committees attend as a representative. Attendance details should be recorded in the shareholders’ meeting minutes. If the shareholders’ meeting is convened by a person who is not a member of the Board of Directors but has the right of convention, such person shall preside over the meeting. If there are two or more persons having the right of convention, they shall designate one person among themselves to preside over the meeting. Article 8: The Company may appoint the retained attorney(s), certified public accountant(s), or relevant personnel to participate in a shareholders’ meeting. The personnel responsible for the administration affairs during the meeting shall wear ID badges or armbands. Article 9: The Company shall record and video tape the entire process of the shareholders’ report, process of the meeting, and vote counting continuously and uninterruptedly from the time of receiving the shareholders’ report. Audio or video records of any shareholders’ meeting of the preceding paragraph shall be retained for at least one year. Where any shareholder files a lawsuit pursuant to Article 189 of the Company Act, such records shall be retained until conclusion of the lawsuit. Article 10: The chair shall call the meeting to order at the appointed meeting time and disclose information concerning the number of nonvoting shares and number of shares represented.

The chair shall call the meeting to order at the appointed meeting time. However, when attending shareholders do not represent a majority of the total number of issued shares, the chair may announce a postponement, provided that there are no more than two such postponements, for a combined total of no more than 1 hour. If the attending shareholders after the second postponement do not represent at least one third of the total outstanding shares, the chair will

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announce adjournment of the meeting due to the lack of a quorum. If the attending shareholders after the second postponement, while still not meeting the quorum, represent at least one third of the total outstanding shares, a tentative resolution may be adopted in accordance with Paragraph 1, Article 175 of the Company Act and communicated to the shareholders to notify them that the meeting will be convened again within one month.

If the attending shareholders before the end of the meeting already represent a majority of the total outstanding shares, the Chairman may re-propose the tentative resolution for voting at the shareholders’ meeting in accordance with Article 174 of the Company Act. Article 11: If a shareholders’ meeting is convened by the Board of Directors, the meeting agenda shall be set by the Board of Directors. Votes shall be cast on each separate proposal in the agenda (including extraordinary motions and amendments to the original proposals set out in the agenda). The meeting shall proceed in the order set by the agenda, which may not be changed without a resolution of the shareholders’ meeting. The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to a shareholders’ meeting convened by a party with the power to convene that is not the Board of Directors.

  • The chair shall not, without approval of the shareholders’ meeting, announce adjournment before a resolution is reached with regard to the agenda (including extraordinary motions) arranged in accordance with the preceding two paragraphs. After the close of the said meeting, shareholders shall not elect another Chairman to hold another meeting at the same place or at any other place. If the chair declares the meeting adjourned in violation of the rules of procedure, the other members of the Board of Directors shall promptly assist the attending shareholders in electing a new chair in accordance with statutory procedures, by agreement of a majority of the votes represented by the attending shareholders, and then continue the meeting.

  • Article 12: Before any attending shareholder delivers a statement, the shareholder shall submit a speaker’s slip containing the purpose of his/her statement, his/her account number (or attendance card number), and account name. The Chairperson shall determine the order in which the shareholders deliver their statements. A shareholder who submits his/her slip for a speech but does not actually speak shall be considered as not having given a speech. If the contents of his/her speech shall be different from those specified on the slip, the contents of his/her speech shall prevail. When an attending shareholder has the floor, all other shareholders shall not interfere without the consent of the Chairman or the shareholder who holds the floor. The Chairman shall terminate the interference.

  • Article 13: Except with the consent of the chair, a shareholder may not speak more than twice on the same proposal, and a single speech may not exceed five minutes. Where a shareholder speaks in violation of the preceding paragraph or beyond

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the scope of the agenda item, the chair may terminate the speech.
Article 14: When an institutional shareholder appoints two or more representatives to attend
the shareholders’ meeting, only one of the representatives so appointed may
speak on the same proposal.
Article 15: After an attending shareholder finishes speaking, the chair may respond either in
person or through a designated person.
Article 16: When the chair is of the opinion that a proposal has been discussed sufficiently
to put it to a vote, the chair may announce the discussion closed, call for a vote,
and schedule sufficient time for voting.
Article 17: Vote monitoring and counting personnel for the voting on a proposal shall be
appointed by the chair, provided that all monitoring personnel shall be
shareholders.
Counting of votes for resolutions or elections at the shareholders’ meeting shall
be conducted in public at the venue of the shareholders’ meeting, and after the
vote counting is finished, the voting results shall be announced on the spot,
including the number of voting rights, and a record shall be made.
Article 18: During the process of the meeting, the Chairman may announce a break at any
time that he/she deems appropriate. In the event of force majeure, the Chairman
may suspend the meeting and announce a time for resumption of the meeting
depending on the circumstances.
If the venue of the meeting is no longer available for use before all of the items
(including extraordinary motions) on the meeting agenda have been completed,
the shareholders’ meeting may adopt a resolution to resume the meeting at
another venue.
A resolution may be adopted by the shareholders’ meeting to delay or resume
the meeting within five days pursuant to Article 182 of the Company Act.
Article 19: Each shareholder of the Company is entitled to one vote, except for restricted
voting rights or shares that have no voting rights as listed in the Company Act.
The shares held by shareholders having no voting rights shall not be counted in
the total number of issued shares while adopting a resolution at a meeting of
shareholders. A shareholder who has a personal interest in the matter under
discussion at a meeting, which may impair the interest of the Company, shall
not vote nor exercise the voting rights on behalf of another shareholder.
Shares for which voting rights cannot be exercised as provided in the preceding
paragraph shall not be counted in the number of votes of shareholders present at
the meeting.
Article 20: At the Company’s shareholders’ meeting, voting rights may be exercised
electronically and in writing. Where voting rights are exercised in writing or
electronically, such means of exercise shall be expressly provided in the notice
of the shareholders’ meeting. Any shareholder exercising voting rights in a
written or electronic form will be deemed as having attended the shareholders’
meeting in person, but also deemed as having waived his/her rights with respect

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to the extempore motions and amendments to original proposals at that meeting. Any shareholder exercising voting rights in a written or electronic form in the preceding paragraph shall deliver his/her intention to do so to the Company two days before the date of the shareholders’ meeting. Where duplicate intentions are delivered, the one received first shall prevail, unless a statement has been made to withdraw said intention.

Where any shareholder who has exercised voting rights in a written or electronic form intends to attend the shareholders’ meeting in person, the shareholder shall withdraw his/her previous intention to exercise voting rights in the same way in which he/she exercised voting rights two days before the date of the shareholders’ meeting. If said intention is withdrawn after that period, the voting rights exercised in a written or electronic form shall prevail. Where any shareholder who has exercised voting rights in a written or electronic form has appointed a proxy to attend the shareholders’ meeting through a letter of attorney, the voting rights exercised by the appointed proxy at the meeting shall prevail.

  • Unless otherwise provided for in the Company Act and the Company’s Articles of Incorporation, the decision on an issue shall be resolved by a majority vote in the meeting which is attended by shareholder. After the conclusion of the meeting, on the same day it is held, the results for each proposal, based on the numbers of votes for and against and the number of abstentions, shall be entered into the MOPS.

  • Article 21: When there is an amendment or an alternative to a proposal, the chair shall present the amended or alternative proposal together with the original proposal and decide the order in which they will be put to a vote. When any one among them is passed, the other proposals will then be deemed rejected, and no further voting shall be required.

  • Article 22: The election of directors at a shareholders’ meeting shall be held in accordance with the applicable election and appointment rules adopted by the Company, and the voting results shall be announced on-site immediately, including the names of those elected as directors and the numbers of votes with which they were elected, and the names of directors not elected and number of votes they received.

  • The ballots for the election referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be sealed with the signatures of the monitoring personnel and kept in proper custody for at least one year. Where any shareholder files a lawsuit pursuant to Article 189 of the Company Act, such records shall be retained until conclusion of the lawsuit.

  • Article 23: Resolutions at the shareholders’ meeting shall be made into minutes, which shall be signed or sealed by the chair and distributed to all shareholders within 20 days after the meeting. The meeting minutes may be prepared and distributed in an electronic form.

The production and distribution of the meeting minutes of the Company in the

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preceding paragraph may be done so on the MOPS.

  • In addition to the information on the date, month, year, venue, name of the chair, and method of resolution, the essentials and results of the meeting (including the number of voting rights counted) shall be detailed in the meeting minutes. In the event of an election of directors, the number of votes obtained by each elected director shall be disclosed. The meeting minutes shall be kept for the Company permanently.

  • Article 24: On the day of a shareholders’ meeting, the Company shall compile in the prescribed format a statistical statement of the number of shares obtained by solicitors through solicitation, the number of shares represented by proxies, and the number of shares represented by shareholders, and shall make an express disclosure of the same at the place of the shareholders’ meeting.

  • If the resolutions adopted by a shareholders’ meeting include material information as provided by law or defined by the competent authorities, the Company shall upload the resolutions including such information to the MOPS within the specified time period.

  • Article 25: The chair may direct proctors or security personnel to help maintain order at the meeting. When proctors or security personnel help maintain order at the meeting place, they shall wear an armband bearing the word “Proctor” or an ID badge. Where the shareholders’ meeting venue has loudspeaker equipment, any shareholder speaking through any device other than the equipment provided by the Company may be stopped by the chair from doing so.

  • When a shareholder violates the rules of procedure and defies the chair’s correction, obstructing the proceedings and refusing to heed calls to stop, the chair may direct the proctors or security personnel to escort the shareholder from the meeting.

  • Article 26: These Rules, and any amendments hereto, shall be implemented after adoption by the shareholders’ meeting.

  • Article 27: These Rules were established on September 17, 1999; the 1[st] amendment was made on June 14, 2002; the 2[nd] amendment was made on June 14, 2006; the 3[rd] amendment was made on June 13, 2012; the 4[th] amendment was made on June 12, 2018; the 5[th] amendment was made on June 10, 2020; the 6[th] amendment was made on July 15, 2021.

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[Attachment 11]

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Procedures for Election of Directors

Article 1: These Procedures have been established to govern the election of directors of
the Company in accordance with the regulations of the competent authority.
Article 2: Matters not provided for in these Procedures shall be governed by the Company
Act, the Company’s Articles of Incorporation, and related laws and regulations.
Article 3: The election of directors of the Company shall be conducted at a shareholders’
meeting or an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting.
Article 4: The registered cumulative voting method shall be adopted for the election of the
Company’s directors. Each share shall have the voting rights in number equal to
the number of directors to be elected. Votes may be cast for a single candidate
or divided among several candidates. The candidates with votes representing
higher numbers of voting rights are elected as directors.
Article 5: When the Company elects independent directors, the candidate nomination
system shall be adopted in accordance with Article 192-1 of the Company Act,
and the independent directors shall be elected by shareholders from the list of
independent director candidates. In the election of directors of the Company,
independent directors and non-independent directors shall be elected together,
and the number of directors and independent directors to be elected shall be
calculated separately.
Article 6: In the election of directors of the Company, each share is entitled to the voting
rights in number equal to the number of directors to be elected. Votes may be
cast for a single candidate or split among multiple candidates.
Article 7: The Company’s directors shall be elected by shareholders from among persons
with disposing capacity based on the number of seats specified in the
Company’s Articles of Incorporation. The candidates with the highest number
of votes shall be elected as directors in sequence. If two or more candidates
receive the same number of voting rights and the specified number of directors
to be elected will be exceeded, the persons or the chair (if the persons are
absent) shall draw lots to determine the winner.
Article 8: Ballots shall be prepared and issued by the Board of Directors, and shall be
numbered according to the shareholder account number (or attendance card
number), with the number of voting rights indicated.
Article 9: When an election commences, the chair shall appoint a number of persons to
perform the respective duties of monitoring and counting personnel.
Article 10: If the candidate is a shareholder, the voter must specify the candidate’s account
name and shareholder account number in the field of “Candidate” on the ballots;
if not, the candidate’s name and ID card number shall be specified. However,
when the candidate is a government or juristic person shareholder, the name of

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the government agency or juristic person shall be indicated in the Candidate field on the ballots. The name of the government agency or juristic person and the name of its representative may also be provided. If there are several representatives, their names shall be indicated.

Article 11: A ballot is invalid if:

  • (1) The ballot used does not comply with these Procedures.

  • (2) A blank ballot is placed in the ballot box.

  • (3) The writing is unclear and indecipherable or has been altered.

  • (4) The account name or shareholder account number of the candidate who is a shareholder does not conform to the shareholders’ register; the name and ID card number of the candidate who is not a shareholder do not match.

  • (5) Words other than the candidate’s account name (name) and shareholder account number (ID card number) are written on the ballot.

  • (6) The candidate’s account name (name) and shareholder account number (ID card number) are not provided.

  • (7) Two or more candidates are entered on the same ballot.

  • Article 12: For the election of directors, the ballot box shall be publicly inspected by the monitoring personnel before voting.

  • Article 13: Votes shall be counted on-site immediately after voting, and the results shall be announced by the chair on the site.

  • Article 14: The Board of Directors of the Company shall issue notices of election to the candidates elected as directors.

  • Article 15: These Procedures, and any amendments hereto, shall be implemented after adoption by the shareholders’ meeting.

  • Article 16: These Procedures were established on September 17, 1999; the 1st amendment was made on June 14, 2002; the 2nd amendment was made on June 13, 2012; the 3rd amendment was made on June 10, 2015; and the 4th amendment was made on June 12, 2018.

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[Attachment 12]

K.S. TERMINALS INC.

Shareholding of Directors

  • I. As of the book closure date of this annual general shareholders’ meeting, the paid-in capital of the Company was NTD 1,556,548,900, with 155,654,890 shares issued.

  • II. Under the provisions stipulated in Article 26 of the Securities and Exchange Act, the minimum number of shares to be held by all directors is 9,339,293.

  • III. The number of shares held by individual and all directors as indicated in the shareholders’ register as of the last day of share transfer registration for this annual general shareholders’ meeting is as follows, in line with the criteria for the number of shares as required by Article 26 of the TWSE.

26 of the TWSE.
Title Account Name Number of Shares on the Shareholders’
Register as of 2024/04/08
Shares Shareholding Ratio (%)
Chairman Cheng Ke-Pin 2,570,014 1.65%
Director Cheng Yu-Liang 6,780,191 4.36%
Director Cheng Hsin-Yen - -
Director Liao Pen-Lin - -
Independent
Director
Lai Jui-Hua - -
Independent
Director
Chen Liang-Kung - -
Independent
Director
Lee Yi-Lung - -
Total Shareholding of all Directors 9,350,205 6.01%

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[Attachment 13]

Other Matters

The Handling of Proposals of Shareholders at This Annual General Meeting:

  • (I) According to the provisions stipulated in Article 172-1 - shareholder(s) holding one percent (1%) or more of the total number of outstanding shares of the Company may propose to the Company a proposal in writing, provided that only one matter shall be allowed and is limited to 300 words (including punctuations).

  • (II) The period for the Company to accept proposals from shareholders for this year’s annual general shareholders’ meeting was March 20 to March 29, 2024. This has been announced on the MOPS.

  • (III)The Company did not receive proposal from shareholders.

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