Major exports from Hong Kong are light rubberized knitted fabric (51%) and heavy pure woven cotton (22%).

[4][5] Nicaragua maintained a consulate in Hong Kong prior to the 1997 transfer of sovereignty from British administration to the People's Republic of China (PRC).

[14] The major dispute is the concern on the project's environmental impact, especially on Lake Nicaragua, which would be joint by the two world's largest oceans to form one of the busiest shipping route once the canal would be built.

[15][16] It has been argued that Nicaragua sold its sovereignty to a Hong Kong company for a century after negotiated without transparency and national consensus.

[22] While more discoveries are anticipated in the future, 15,000 pieces of artefacts, including pottery, stone tools, and obsidian were retrieved for Nicaraguan governmental storage.