5. LEASES

The Company leases 7,300 square feet of office space in Hong Kong with a term expiring in June 2026, and 4,900 square feet of office space in Rolling Hills Estates, California for its corporate staff with a term expiring in September 2030. To help further develop the market for its products in North America, the Company leases 1,600 square feet of retail space in each of Rowland Heights, California and Richmond, British Columbia and 2,000 square feet of retail space in Metuchen, New Jersey. The Rowland Heights, Richmond and Metuchen locations have terms expiring in November 2025, February 2024 and December 2028, respectively.

The Company leases seven branch offices throughout China, and additional office space in Peru, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, India and the Cayman Islands. The Company contracts with third parties for fulfillment and distribution operations in all of its international markets. None of the Company’s third party logistics contracts contain a lease as the Company does not have the right to access the warehouses or move its inventories at will.

The components of lease cost were as follows (in thousands):

Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating leases liabilities was $253,000 and $309,000 for the three months ended  September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $929,000 and $946,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

The weighted-average remaining lease term and discount rate related to operating leases as of September 30, 2023 were as follows:

As most of our leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company used its incremental borrowing rate, or the rate of each of its subsidiaries if available, based on the information available at the lease commencement date to determine the present value of lease payments.

The annual scheduled lease payments of our operating lease liabilities as of September 30, 2023 were as follows (in thousands):

For all asset classes, the Company elected not to recognize assets or liabilities at the acquisition date for leases that, at the acquisition date, have a remaining lease term of 12 months or less. Additionally, for all asset classes, the Company choose not to separate nonlease components from lease components and instead account for the combined lease and nonlease components associated with that lease component as a single lease component.