International shipping to the USA has slowed dramatically and the word is this is just the beginning. This is extremely rare to see these docs without cargo.
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Someone else posted this in a different thread but its even more relevant here.
Light takes 8 minutes to reach the earth from the sun, if the sun vanished it would still be daylight for 8 minutes.
It takes 30 days for a ship to reach the US from China.
We're around day 26 now afaik?
I work in the fashion retail industry. We had cancelled half of fall holiday orders and increase MSRP on a bunch of other stuff. This is only the tip of the iceberg for issues that will compound.
This is about to make COVID shortages seem aspirational.