Will the US market in the 2021 Christmas season be as hot as in previous years?

In the blink of an eye, it’s the last month of 2021. This month is the most important month of the year for the global consumer market.There will be Christmas and New Year this month, and all businesses and brands will unanimously increase their sales this month, and they all want to make a lot of money this month.

After experiencing the impact of the COVID-19, and experiencing the crazy price increase of shipping, and the indefinite extension of the shipping schedule, will the Christmas US market in 2021 be as hot as in previous years?

As a foreign trade factory for the production and export of drinking bottle, the main export markets of our factory are Europe and the United States.From June 2021 to the present, the editor has gone through a number of projects exported to the United States, with orders ranging from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of water bottle.

Multiple orders have encountered the same problem.These problems are the increase in shipping prices. Some customers have to abandon their orders due to the increase in shipping prices and the purchase cost has doubled. These are mainly orders with relatively small purchase quantities.But for those with a large number of purchases, the cost of purchasing more than a dozen containers at a time has also doubled.

Under such circumstances, we also encountered some customers who were forced to abandon their orders due to the fact that they could not arrange the shipping schedule.There are also some customers who have clearly agreed the shipping schedule, but they cannot deliver the goods as scheduled.The delivery time has been delayed and delayed. At present, the shipping schedule of a US customer I know of has been delayed for 40 days, and it has not been shipped yet.

Even if some of our customers’ orders were shipped as scheduled, it took more than 40 days to arrive in previous years, which took 30 days.I thought that everything would be fine when I arrived, but I didn't expect that the subsequent customs clearance would be even more difficult.It is said that even the 24-hour uninterrupted handling of cargo stockpiles in US ports will take 4 months to be cleared, which does not count as a steady stream of cargo arrivals.

One of our customers with a large purchase volume has made it clear that the water glasses purchased this year will not be able to catch up with the Christmas sales season in the United States.Coupled with the inflation in the United States, it is very likely that the loss this time will not only hurt the vitality, but will also likely push them out of the rankings of the American drinking glass industry.

Perhaps what we encountered was a single case, and I didn’t know that American customers in the same industry also encountered the same problem.If we just look at it from the current experience, the US market will be out of stock to a large extent during the 2021 Christmas season, and it will be more difficult to maintain the popularity of previous years.