That is a very good arrangement you have there with panda, that they are willing for you to select the tagged aros at the time of deposit even before the processing of the CITIES. My understanding in their usual exporting process(Panda and all other aro farms in Singapore), specially to CAnada, is that they will process the Tag numbers, but will just hang on to them and not embedded in the aros yet. When all the CITIES are done that's the only time that they embed it to the aros (and for you to select the aros among the 4"-5" untagged aros if you are in Singapore or know somebody in Singapore who will select them for you). Reason for this being that it takes about 3 + months for all the papers to be processsed and farms are not willing to hold and keep the aros for that long specially when they are bought at a 5" price. At that age, aros grow at a rate of 1" or more a month so after 3 months they will be around 8" already. That's really great news for this group buy batch you will be getting 8+" aros for the price of a 5"!!