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If you want to know what is going on in USA supply chains, look at their news sources: https://www.supplychainbrain.com/ https://www.supplychainbrain.com/ https://www.freightwaves.com/ https://www.freightwaves.com/ I'd be interested in learning of others. Ships are backed up offshore waiting to unload delaying shipments, train terminals have run out of temporary storage space causing delays in getting stuff out of ports because there are fewer trains to load it onto, trucks and drivers are less available and unevenly available across the country, shipping containers are in short supply, ship transport costs have tripled and quadrupled, and various countries in South Asia which have very few vaccinations are having to close factories due to Delta because it spreads so fast it escapes their zero covid policies. The root causes of it all are Delta, globally interdependent supply chains, worker and equipment shortages limiting the ability to scale up, and a much heightened consumer demand, especially in the USA. If we all bought less the problems would mostly solve themselves in a relatively short time (months). As it is, problems are expected late into next year and are likely to drive some price inflation in specific areas (trucking costs are expected to rise at least 5% and probably more, container shipments that cost $3000 now cost $15,000, delays result in shortages causing customers to pay more as they compete with each other). Manufacturing shortages are being driven by the same problems resulting in parts not arriving on time causing temporary shutdowns of assembly lines. None of this is evenly distributed, some products and areas are doing fine, some like cars and electronics will be messed up into next year. There is a shortage of paper pulp because so much has been going into making cardboard boxes to ship goods to consumers. It's all likely temporary, just going to take a while to sort through (unless a new variant shows up). Getting the entire world vaccinated would help a lot; USA supply chains are very dependent on parts from countries all over the world.