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Hong Kong

Trading and re-export gateway between Chinese and international beauty markets.

Analysis on Hong Kong

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Story

How agarwood forms, and why most trees never make any

Composite montage: a hand holding a CITES certificate beside a stack of photocopies labelled as document fraud, two Aquilaria species labelled wild against plantation, a seized container at a port marked as a CITES offence, a map tracing flows from Indonesia through Hong Kong to China with dotted lines marked invisible volumes, an old Hong Kong harbour with junks, and a scientist at a genetic reference database of incense trees
Regulation & Compliance

What a CITES permit on agarwood proves

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