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China’s pantry

The daigou are stripping our shelves of more than baby formula

8 May 2020

11:00 PM

8 May 2020

11:00 PM

Perhaps toilet paper as the first essential on an Australian’s survival list did not fit into the logical part of your brain. The ABC reported pandemic psychology as the symptom causing empty shelves but like the virus, it strained in China.

China is the largest exporter of silky, soft paper, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity.

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