The Pei Ho Street Market stalls were pulling down shutters before noon on Tuesday. The Transport and Logistics Bureau had issued a statement an hour before about nine new GBA cities and a doubled cross-boundary permit quota. Both things happened. At Pei Ho, the stallholder operating the metal shutter is not the person the permit quota was written for; the Ap Liu Street electronics trader who runs to Shenzhen twice a week holds the right paper. The stallholder holds a day's margin and a black rainstorm warning.

The quota expansion takes effect from June 9 and extends the scheme to nine mainland cities that previously required a coach booking or a freight intermediary. For the cross-border driver it means more destinations; for the garment accessories importer from Fo Tan who has booked the same Sha Tin cross-border coach for eleven years, the gazette notice does not change the Tuesday booking. At Pei Ho, the shutters came down before noon. They open Wednesday.