  We discuss the power scaling rules along the lines of a complete Heavy Quark
Effective Field Theory (HQEFT) for the description of heavy quarkonium
production through a color-octet mechanism. To this end, we firstly derive a
tree-level heavy quark effective Lagrangian keeping both particle-antiparticle
mixed sectors allowing for heavy quark-antiquark pair annihilation and
creation, but describing only low-energy modes around the heavy quark mass.
Then we show the consistency of using HQEFT fields in constructing four-fermion
local operators a la NRQCD, to be identified with standard color-octet matrix
elements. We analyze some numerical values extracted from charmonia production
by different authors and their hierarchy in the light of HQEFT.
