Surging Covid infections delay Chinese exporters’ deliveries

THE surge of Covid-19 across China is preventing exporters from delivering orders on time because their workers are falling sick.

The missed deadlines show how China’s Covid policy is again disrupting foreign trade, this time due to illnesses rather than lockdowns and other restrictions.

Exporter Bilateral Trade Asia America had been scheduled to send out two containers’ worth of goods to overseas customers on Dec 23, but had to postpone delivery because seven suppliers did not deliver their own products on time due to local Covid outbreaks, said the company’s manager, Xu Fangpeng.