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CITES & Compliance

The paperwork is the business

Every Aquilaria species is listed in CITES Appendix II. Without a valid permit, agarwood does not leave China - not as wood, not as chips, not as oil. We handle the full chain: cultivation and harvest records, provincial endangered-species office approval, CITES export permit, phytosanitary certificate, and customs declaration. Plan on 90 days from order to permit in hand, and start the process on day one rather than the day you get an order.

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Cultivation & inoculation records

Plantation registration, tree age, inoculation date and method. This is the document everything else is built on - without it, no permit will be issued.

02

Harvest & batch record

Harvest date, grove block, raw weight, grade assessment. Each batch gets a number that follows it through distillation, bottling and export.

03

Provincial endangered-species office

Application to the provincial office under the National Forestry and Grassland Administration. This is the step that takes calendar time and cannot be rushed.

04

CITES export permit

Issued per shipment, tied to species, quantity and destination. The importer in your country needs their own import permit - confirm this before you order.

05

Phytosanitary certificate

Required for wood and plant material. Distilled oil and finished incense may be exempt depending on destination - confirm per market.

06

Customs declaration & release

HS code classification matters here: oil, chips and finished incense classify differently, and misclassification is the most common cause of a held shipment.

07

Import permit at destination

Your responsibility as importer, not ours - but we supply the species, quantity and batch data your authority will ask for.

All Aquilaria species are listed in CITES Appendix II. Export requires a valid CITES permit. Prices on this site are indicative only and do not constitute an offer.
FAQ

Questions buyers actually ask

Can you actually export agarwood? It is CITES-listed.
Yes, but only with a permit. All Aquilaria species are Appendix II, which means regulated trade is legal - unregulated trade is not. We obtain a CITES export permit per shipment from the provincial endangered-species office, and we will not ship without one. Budget 90 days from confirmed order to permit in hand, and start early.
Is essential oil also covered by CITES?
Treat it as yes. Some jurisdictions treat finished derivatives more leniently than raw wood, but enforcement varies by port and by officer, and the cost of getting it wrong is a seized shipment and a blacklisted importer. We ship oil under the same permit chain as wood. Confirm your own country's import rules in writing before your first order.
What is the difference between kynam and oud?
Kynam (奇楠, kyara in Japanese kodo) is not a species - it is a condition. It forms when a specific fungal infection drives resin production far past normal, leaving wood so saturated it is soft to the knife and sweet to the taste. Oud is the broader category of resinous agarwood. All kynam is agarwood; very little agarwood is kynam.
Why is Chinese Sinensis priced below kynam but smells nothing like it?
Because price tracks scarcity, and quality is a separate axis. Southeast Asian oud is scarce and dark; Sinensis is more available and cool-floral. A buyer who only knows Vietnamese material usually expects Sinensis to be a cheap substitute. It is not - it is a different instrument, and the buyers who understand that are the ones building differentiated shelves.
Do you do private label?
Yes, on the oud oil grades and on bakhoor. We fill to your bottle, apply your label, and match viscosity and scent profile to a target sample. Minimum runs depend on format; tell us the target product and we will quote the run size honestly, including where we are not competitive.
Can I get samples before a full order?
We prefer it. The Discovery Oil Quartet exists precisely so you are not buying a tola of kynam on faith. Sample sets ship under the same documentation as full orders, just smaller. For buyers in the Gulf, Japan and the EU we routinely send samples first and quote second.
What is your minimum order?
It depends on format: oils from 1 unit, stick boxes from 10, trial sets from 5, accessories from 30 to 100 depending on tooling. Trade tier pricing starts at the quantities shown on each product page. We would rather do a small first order that repeats than a large one that does not.
How do you ship fragile 21 cm sticks?
Rigid tube, EVA flocked insert, then a rigid outer carton. Sticks shipped in soft packing arrive broken at rates that reach 15 percent, and breakage is the most common reason a first order never becomes a second. The tube costs cents; the replacement shipment costs the relationship.
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