Another China lockdown jeopardizes electronics, auto supply chains

Factory workers in China making printed circuit boards. COVID restrictions are forcing factories to close, slowing deliveries to laptop and automakers.

A five-day lockdown to contain the spread of COVID in the Chinese city of Kunshan, an important production center for electronics components, could severely squeeze the supply of laptops, mobile phones, TVs and automobiles, according to industry and media reports from the region.

Meanwhile, factory and logistics activity in Shanghai has been slashed further with the entire population of 25 million sheltering in place after authorities indefinitely extended a quarantine mandate that was supposed...

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