Badger hair imports illegal in China

Just in case your killer China business plan involves badger hair at all, watch out - it is a BANNED import.

Who knew?

Here are the top five banned substances from the Catalogue of Commodities Forbidden to Import (fourth batch) from the Chinese government:

1. unprocessed human hair, no matter washed or not; wasted human hair
2. bristles and wasted bristles
3. badger hair and other wasted animal hair used for making brushes
4. wasted horse hair
5. sugarcane molasses...

the list goes on to include "old clothing" at number 15. Nor does it want any of the world's broken TVs, VCRs or duplicating machines, the kind of old office crap that hawkers make a living from piling up and selling on Queen's Road Central here in HK....